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By A. Cross
A set of 9 articles written through prime students in Britain, eire, Italy and the us on a number of elements of the town of St Petersburg in the course of the vital first century and 1 / 4 of its lifestyles, from its founding in 1703 to the top of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, structure, social historical past and international perceptions are the various matters lined in those vigorous and knowledgeable essays.
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I. Andreev, ‘Osnovanie Akademii nauk v Peterburge’, Petr Velikii: sbornik statei (Moscow–Leningrad, 1947), p. 323. 38. M. Baer, ‘Zaslugi Petra Velikogo po chasti rasprostraneniia geograficheskikh poznanii o Rossii’, Zapiski Imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva, kn. III (1849), kn. M. B. Shaw 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. petrovskogo vremeni (Moscow–Leningrad, 1950), pp. 80–1, 111, 214–16; A. Lipski, ‘The Foundation of the Russian Academy of Sciences’, Isis, XLIV (1953) 349–54; A.
He was George, Lord Forbes, who, in the same year that he obtained the chart, became the Third Earl of Granard. Lord Forbes acquired this plan in St Petersburg, where he lived for a year as Great Britain’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of the Empress Anna Ivanovna (ruled 1730–40). While there, he regularly met with the most influential advisers to the tsaritsa, including Andrei Osterman, head of the Russian foreign ministry, and Ernst Johann Biron, Anna’s infamous favourite.
There was indeed more than one eighteenth-century St Petersburg. Only by trying to grapple with that complexity, with the changes, experiences and identities which comprised the city, can its uncertain modernities be appreciated. Notes 1. B. Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight: St Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (Oxford, 2001), p. 5. 2. E. ’, in L. ), Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives (London, 2001), pp. 189–205. 3. See, for example, A. Giddens, The Constitution of Society (Cambridge, 1984); D.