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St Petersburg - Three Centuries of Murderous Desire (Paperback)
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St Petersburg - Three Centuries of Murderous Desire (Paperback)
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'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place.
Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE
WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story
of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and
influential cities in the world. St Petersburg has always felt like
an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded
marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a
new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer
will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac
Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly
fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city,
in its successive incarnations - St Petersburg; Petrograd;
Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg - has always been a place
of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the
Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here:
its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision.
It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky,
Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its
glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the
blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It
has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and
starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin's power-hungry
brutality. In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of
three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us
up to the present day, when - once more - its fate hangs in the
balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness
played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable
portrait of a city and its people.
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