Moon Moscow And St Petersburg

Author : Jennifer Chater
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 9781598801712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg written by Jennifer Chater and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow-based journalists and editors Nathan Toohey and Jennifer Chater use their experience living in St. Petersburg and as Moscow locals to divulge the mysteries of an area hidden from the Western world for nearly 70 years, from exploring Moscow's 24-hour nightlife, museums, festivals and shopping districts to traversing St. Petersburg's canals, palaces and imperial architecture. Toohey and Chater provide suggestions for travelers combining both cities in one visit, along with itinerary ideas, such as a Soviet Flashback in Moscow and the Imperial Grandeur of St. Petersburg. Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg is packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations. Complete with details on where to take a troika ride, play billards, or purchase sundries from street traders, Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

Author : Nadine Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190659300
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marius Petipa written by Nadine Meisner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does The Nutcracker during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but others - Don Quixote, La Bayadère - have also become popular, even canonical components of the classical repertoire, and together they have shaped the defining style of twentieth-century ballet. The first biography in English of this monumental figure of ballet history, Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master covers the choreographer's life and work in full within the context of remarkable historical and political surroundings. Over the course of ten well-researched chapters, Nadine Meisner explores Marius Petipa's life and legacy: the artist's arrival in Russia from his native France, the socio-political tensions and revolution he experienced, his popularity on the Russian imperial stage, his collaborations with other choreographers and composers (most famously Tchaikovsky), and the conditions under which he worked, in close proximity to the imperial court. Meisner presents a thrilling and exhaustive narrative not only of Petipa's life but of the cultural development of ballet across the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book also extends beyond Petipa's narrative with insightful analyses of the evolution of ballet technique, theatre genres, and the rise of male dancers. Richly illustrated with archival photographs, this book unearths original material from Petipa's 63 years in Russia, much of it never published in English before. As Meisner demonstrates, the choreographer laid the foundations for Soviet ballet and for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the expatriate company which exercised such an enormous influence on ballet in the West, including the Royal Ballet and Balanchine's New York City Ballet. After Petipa, Western ballet would never be the same.

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Total Pages : 1132 pages
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Author : Masha Nordbye
Publisher : Moon Travel Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780918373915
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow-St. Petersburg Handbook written by Masha Nordbye and published by Moon Travel Handbooks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes points of interest in the two cities and the region called the Golden Ring, with accommodations, dining, and shopping

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770360
Total Pages : 463 pages
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Download or read book Coerced and Free Migration written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an innovative history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from around 1500 to the early 20th century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled, and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under drastically different labor regimes.--Alison Games "Georgetown University"

Author : Richard Southwell Bourke Earl of Mayo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Petersburg and Moscow written by Richard Southwell Bourke Earl of Mayo and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Marcy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368847864
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sciopticon Manual written by L. Marcy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Alexander Etkind
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745673546
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internal Colonization written by Alexander Etkind and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s culturalhistory. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conqueredforeign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, therebycolonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision ofcolonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizingone’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholarsof empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade, which shaped its enormous territory,and ending with Russia’s collapse in 1917, Etkind exploresserfdom, the peasant commune, and other institutions of internalcolonization. His account brings out the formative role of foreigncolonies in Russia, the self-colonizing discourse of Russianclassical historiography, and the revolutionary leaders’illusory hopes for an alliance with the exotic, pacifistsectarians. Transcending the boundaries between history andliterature, Etkind examines striking writings about Russia’simperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and from Gogol toConrad. This path-breaking book blends together historical, theoretical andliterary analysis in a highly original way. It will be essentialreading for students of Russian history and literature and foranyone interested in the literary and cultural aspects ofcolonization and its aftermath.

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Total Pages : 882 pages
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Author : Christian Lardier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146145459X
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book The Soyuz Launch Vehicle written by Christian Lardier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Soyuz Launch Vehicle” tells the story, for the first time in a single English-language book, of the extremely successful Soyuz launch vehicle. Built as the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Soyuz was adapted to launch not only Sputnik but also the first man to orbit Earth, and has been in service for over fifty years in a variety of forms. It has launched all Soviet manned spacecraft and is now the only means of reaching the International Space Station. It was also the workhorse for launching satellites and space probes and has recently been given a second life in French Guiana, fulfilling a commercial role in a joint venture with France. No other launch vehicle has had such a long and illustrious history. This remarkable book gives a complete and accurate description of the two lives of Soyuz, chronicling the recent cooperative space endeavors of Europe and Russia. The book is presented in two parts: Christian Lardier chronicles the “first life” in Russia while Stefan Barensky explores its “second life,” covering Starsem, the Franco-Russian company and implementation of technology for the French Guiana Space Agency by ESA. Part One has been developed from Russian sources, providing a descriptive approach to very technical issues. The second part of the book tells the contemporary story of the second life of Soyuz, gathered from Western sources and interviews with key protagonists. “The Soyuz Launch Vehicle” is a detailed description of a formidable human adventure, with its political, technical, and commercial ramifications. At a time when a new order was taking shape in the space sector, the players being the United States, Russia, Europe and Asia, and when economic difficulties sometimes made it tempting to give up, this book reminds us that in the global sector, nothing is impossible.