Moscow. A Traveller's Reader

Фотографии Moscow. A Traveller's Reader

Описание Moscow. A Traveller's Reader

Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of it'
s early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans, the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed, it seemed that two more were built.
In this evocative and fascinating anthology, Moscow'
s turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great'
s bloody reprisals after the revolt of the streltsy in 1698;
a visit to the city'
s brothels by medical students in the 1890s;
Kutuzov abandoning Moscow to Napoleon in 1812, and Napoleon'
s ignominious retreat from the burning city;
Pushkin railing against the mindlessness of 1830 society;
the flowering of literary greatness in the ninenteenth century and of the Moscow Art Theatre in the twentieth;
and the dazzling profusion of jewels in the Treasury of the Kremlin.
These and many other milestones in over seven hundred years of history are brought vividly to life.

Содержание Moscow. A Traveller's Reader

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Map of the City
Map of the 18th century Moscow
Introduction
THE KREMLIN
BEYOND THE KREMLIN
THE IVERIAN MOTHER OF GOD'
S CHAPEL
ST BASIL'
S CATHEDRAL
THE CHURCH OF THE TRINITY
THE NOVO DYEVICHY CONVENT
ST DMITRY DONSKOY
THE ENGLISH CLUB
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY
THE SPARROW HILLS
THE SUKHAREV TOWER
MOSCOW THEATRES
THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY
THE PETROVSKY PALACE
THE FRENCH INVASION, 1812
THE EXPANSION OF MOSCOW
BEYOND M0OSCOW
KOLOMENSKOYE
ARCHANGELSKOYE
OTRADNOYE
KUSKOVO
OSTANKINO
TSARITSYNO
THE TROITSKO-SERGIEVO MONASTERY
LIFE, CUSTOMS AND MORALS IN MOSCOW

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