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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Repaired tear on dustcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Every great city creates its own image in literature and art and Petersburg is no exception. For Pushkin Gogol and Dostoyevsky Petersburg was a spectral city that symbolized the near-apocalyptic conflicts of impe- rial Russia. As the monarchy declined allowing intel- lectuals and artists to flourish Petersburg became a center of avant-garde experiment and flamboyant bohemian challenge to the dominating power of the state first czarist and then communist. The names of the Russian modern masters who found expression in St. Petersburg still resonate pow- erfully in every field of art: in music. Stravinsky Prokofiev and Shostakovich; in literature Akhmatova. Blok Mandelstam Nabokov and Brodsky; in dance Diaghilev Nijinsky and Balanchine: in theater Meyerhold: in painting Chagall and Malevich; and many others whose works are now part of the perma- nent fabric of Western civilization. Yet no comprehen- sive portrait of this thriving distinctive and highly influential cosmopolitan culture and the city that inspired it has previously been attempted.