CITY-PICK ST PETERSBURG
'Floating, lyrical, miraculous Petersburg ... Here's beauty built on bones, classical facades that cradled revolution, summers that lie in the cup of winter' Helen Dunmore, The Siege
Malcolm Bradbury guides us to the Hermitage
Anna Pavlova describes her school days
Vladimir Nabokov re-lives a Petersburg winter
Helen Dunmore plunges us into the worst of times
Serge Dovlatov shows some 'different' Petersburg film-making
Dmitry Shostakovich reveals a musical secret
Truman Capote takes Porgy and Bess to the Soviets
Nikolai Gogol walks us down Nevsky Prospekt
J.M.Coetzee reimagines Dostoyevsky
... over sixty writers on one of the world's most fascinating and haunting cities.
'This evocative anthology ... the latest superb addition to the superb city-pick series' The Guardian
'Captures mood, ambience and history that might complement a guidebook ... a substantive cultural orientation for any actual or armchair visitor' Financial Times
'Paints a portrait worthy of a city that has inspired writers like few others' Lonely Planet Traveller
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'A kaleidoscopic portrait ... an ideal starting point for tourists' TLS
'Offers perfect gems of city writing by a fascinating mixture of contributors' Daily Mail
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