Sankt-Peterburg: Stolits Rossiyskoy Imperii (Rossiya, Kotoroy Net) - St. Petersburg: Capital of the Russian Empire (Russia that Is No More Series)

Moscow-St. Petersburg: Russkaya Kniga/Liki Rossii, 1993. Hardcover. Saddle brown boards with gold art nouveau-style decoration and lettering; dark brown, glossy dj with photographic cover and yellow/white Cyrillic lettering; 326 pp. with bw photographs throughout. NF/NF; museum ex-lib. book plate inside front cover. Item #140146

Most text in Russian but with a list of illustrations and two-page summary in English. Old photos of daily life, people, the grandeur, city sights, leisure time, class differences, the start of war; a real visual study of the life of St. Petersburg from 1900 to the start of the Great War. Very thought-provoking.

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