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Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990's, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state. Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Höjdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population. They are, she observes, "not needed" in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in post socialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as "decent" and "human." Höjdestrand investigates processes of social exclusion as well as the remaining "world of waste": things, tasks, and places that are wanted by nobody else and on which "human leftovers" are forced to survive. In this bleak context, Höjdestrand takes up the intimate worlds of the homeless-their social relationships, dirt and cleanliness, and physical appearance. Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.

Homelessness --- Russia (Federation) --- Social conditions --- Housing --- Poverty --- Homeless persons --- Homelessness in St Petersburg, social relationships between the homeless, st petersburg, homelessness in russia.

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Ein wenig bekanntes Phänomen innerhalb des sogenannten Maurischen Revivals ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung russischer Architekten mit der ibero-islamischen Architektur, insbesondere mit den mittelalterlichen Nasridenpalästen der Alhambra in Granada. Die materialreiche Studie analysiert orientalisierende Bauwerke und Interieurs des 19. Jahrhunderts in St. Petersburg und zeichnet die Transferwege nach, über die das Formenvokabular der Alhambra von Spanien nach Russland gelangte. Sie bezieht wesentliche Aspekte der russischen Kulturgeschichte und der europäischen Orient-Vorstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts mit ein und zeigt, dass russische Architekten und die Kaiserliche Akademie der Künste zu den Pionieren des Maurischen Revivals gehörten. Erstmalige Betrachtung der orientalisierenden Architektur St. Petersburgs im gesamteuropäischen Kontext Russische Architekten als Pioniere des Maurischen Revivals Little is known of Russian architects' in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, analyzes 19th-century Orientalizing buildings and interiors in St. Petersburg and traces the routes by which the formal vocabulary of the Alhambra reached Russia from Spain. Incorporating essential aspects of Russian cultural history and 19th-century European notions of the Orient, it shows that Russian architects and the Imperial Academy of Arts were among the pioneers of the Moorish Revival. The first examination of St. Petersburg's Orientalizing architecture in a pan-European context Russian architects as pioneers of the Moorish Revival

ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). --- 19th century. --- Alhambra. --- Andalusia. --- Granada. --- Orientalism. --- Russia. --- Spain. --- St. Petersburg. --- architecture.

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In Libraries in Russia verfolgt der Autor Valerii Leonov die Geschichte der ersten Nationalbibliothek des Landes, der Bibliothek der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bibliotheca Akademii Nauk, kurz: BAN), vom Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Die Bibliothek geht auf eine Gründung Peters des Großen von 1714 zurück und diente als Beispiel für weitere Bibliotheksgründungen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Diese historische Schilderung basiert auf umfangreichem historischen und bibliographischen Material, darunter einzigartigem Archivmaterial, das hier zum ersten Mal aufbereitet wird. In Libraries in Russia, the author, Valerii Leonov, pursues the history of the first Russian national library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Science (Bibliotheca Akademii Nauk, short: BAN), from the beginning of the 18th century to the present. The library was founded by Peter the Great in 1714 and served as a model for the foundation of further libraries during the 18th century. This historical description is based on extensive historical and bibliographic material, including unique archive material, which is edited here for the first time. The title will be of interest to all in the humanities and everyone interested in Russian history and culture.

027.54 <47 ST. PETERSBURG> --- Rijksoverheidsbibliotheken. Staatsbibliotheken. Nationale bibliotheken (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie--ST. PETERSBURG --- 027.54 <47 ST. PETERSBURG> Rijksoverheidsbibliotheken. Staatsbibliotheken. Nationale bibliotheken (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie--ST. PETERSBURG --- Libraries --- History. --- Akademii͡a nauk SSSR. --- Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR. --- Bibliothèque de l'Académie des sciences de l'URSS --- BAN --- Biblioteka Akademii nauk SSSR --- Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Biblioteka Akademii nauk SSSR --- BAN SSSR --- Biblioteka AN SSSR --- Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR --- Академия наук СССР. --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ nauk (Russia). --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk. --- History --- Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk. Biblioteka --- Russia --- Библиотека Академии наук СССР --- Akademiâ nauk SSSR Biblioteka --- Biblioteka Akademii Nauk SSSR

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St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.  

Monarchy --- Palaces --- History. --- Zimniĭ dvoret︠s︡ (Saint Petersburg, Russia) --- 1689-1999 --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Russia --- Russia. --- Russia (Federation) --- Winterpalast Sankt Petersburg --- Social life and customs --- History --- St. Petersburg, architectural symbols, Russian autocracy, Imperial Hermitage, Russian social landscape.

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Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed upon them, encompassing both the activities of the political, security, and military elite as well as the actions and attitudes of ordinary Leningraders.

HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- Saint Petersburg (Russia) --- Saint Petersburg (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Pietari (Russia) --- Peterburi (Russia) --- Peterburg (Russia) --- Piter (Russia) --- St. Petersburg (Russia) --- Petersburg (Russia) --- Sankt-Peterburg (Russia) --- Санкт-Петербург (Russia) --- Sanktpeterburg (Russia) --- Санктпетербург (Russia) --- Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia) --- San Pietroburgo (Russia) --- Petroupolis (Russia) --- Petropolis (Russia) --- Petrograd (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Leningrad (R.S.F.S.R.) --- History. --- History