Titlebook: St Petersburg, 1703-1825; Anthony Cross Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003 Alexander I..Britain

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,Compiling and Maintaining St Petersburg’s ‘Book of City Inhabitants’: The ‘Real’ City Inhabitants,nd maintain’ a Book of City Inhabitants (.). This book was to have several uses. According to the Charter itself, it was to be compiled ‘so that each citizen’s acquisitions may be transferred from father to son, to grandson, to great-grandson, and to their posterity’.1 The book was therefore upon it

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,Governing the City: St Petersburg and Catherine II’s Reforms,t. The most obvious point of distinctiveness of St Petersburg compared with other Russian towns was the presence of the following: the court and courtiers; large numbers of bureaucrats, officials and clerical staff who were employed in the offices of state; the wealthiest nobles and their serf retin

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,Petersburg Actresses On and Off Stage (1775–1825), therefore played a prominent part in the social life of the upper classes, in both its ‘respectable’ and its covert manifestations. Theatre audiences were socially diverse, spectators ranging from peasants to grandees, but the largest and best documented was the upper-class segment, particularly ma

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,Peter the Great’s St Petersburg in the Works of Pavel Svin’in (1787–1839),16 and 1828. Each volume contains several chapters on individual monuments or architectural ensembles, each section illustrated with an engraving based on sketches by the guide’s author, Pavel Petrovich Svin’in (1787–1839). The subject of this essay is St Petersburg as presented in the pages of Svin

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,: The Decembrists’ Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress,e were formed the first secret societies from which the movement grew; the initiating committee (.) held its meetings in Petersburg; the Northern Society was based here, and the negotiations between the Northern and Southern Societies from 1823 were conducted in Petersburg. Similarly, it was here th

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Book 2003g the important first century and a quarter of its existence, from its founding in 1703 to the end of the reign of Alexander I. Cartography, architecture, social history and foreign perceptions are some of the subjects covered in these lively and informed essays.

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A Venice of the North? Italian Views of St Petersburg,l, of course, as St Petersburg. Any European town built on islands seemed to claim a right to this definition; but, as the parallel was usually not developed further, and did not bring a deeper understanding of the character of these towns, it remained simply a convenient phrase for schooltexts and guidebooks.

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,: The Decembrists’ Memories of the Peter-Paul Fortress,n months until 13 July 1826, when five members of the conspiracy were hanged. And it was from this time that the rest of the convicted Decembrists began their long journey to Siberia from which few would ever return.