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St. Petersburg, Florida, has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now, however, it seeks to rejuvenate its image, to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this humane and sensitive book, Maria Vesperi, an anthropologist and journalist, looks at the realities of being old and poor in the rapidly changing downtown of St. Petersburg. Vesperi provides a complete and carefully observed picture of the elderly: the conditions of their_ lives, representative social programs created to provide for them, and their interaction with the city around them. The life of the old in St. Petersburg, she notes, is characterized by a profound contradiction between how the elderly see themselves and how they are viewed by the community-a contradiction that speaks of the way cultural stereotypes about aging are transmitted to all older Americans. As a culture, Vesperi maintains, we view the old as an isolated segment of humanity without a living future or even an ongoing present. She seeks to understand the ways in which the old respond to the distorted image that they meet with every day, not only in their relations with individuals but in their dealings with the institutions set up specifically to care for them. Her study of St. Petersburg explores questions that are significant throughout the United States: How did our rigid cultural assumptions about old age develop, and how can we change them? Why do so many gerontologists, public officials, and social workers tacitly subscribe to that misconception? How does it inform the development and operation of public programs for the elderly? Enlivened by the voices of the old people of St. Petersburg and enriched with photographs by Ricardo Ferro, this moving book is important reading for anyone concerned with the life of the elderly in America.

Retirement --- Older people --- Superannuation --- Termination of employment --- Leisure --- Old age --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Services for --- Saint Petersburg (Fla.) --- St. Petersburg, Fla. --- St. Petersburg (Fla.) --- Social conditions.

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This guide focuses on Gogol’s language in "The Nose" and his playful twisting of the many Russian idioms that are usually lost in English translations of the story. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of St. Petersburg everyday life, familiar to the writer’s contemporaries but hidden from the modern Western reader. It also presents major critical interpretations of the story and its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.

Aesthetics. --- Gogol', Nikolai Vasil'evich, --- Гоголь, Николай Васильевич, --- Nikolai Gogol. --- Russian literature. --- St. Petersburg. --- The Nose. --- absurdism. --- companions. --- politics and literature. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics

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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

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Walking the first mile of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the visitor is struck by the sight of the Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Armenian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. These buildings reflect the religious, cultural, and social diversity that has been characteristic of the city since Tsar Peter the Great invited thousands of foreigners from all over Western Europe to build this settlement at the estuary of the Neva River. On the occasion of the third centenary of St. Petersburg (2003), historians and archivists from Russia as well as other European countries convened to study the history of the city’s foreign churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The resulting studies, published here, offer fascinating insights into the almost forgotten history of those churches and show how substantially they contributed to the religious, cultural, social, and economic history of St. Petersburg. Contributors include: Archpriest V. Fedorov, M. Fundaminski, P.N. Holtrop, B. Jangfeldt, E.E. Knyazeva, N.S. Krylov, T. Mägi, A. Must, E. Norberg, P.M. Peucker, K. Rundell, V.M. Shishkin, C.H. Slechte, A.R. Sokolov, Th.J.S. van Staalduine, T.I. Tatsenko, J.W. Veluwenkamp, and M.V. Shkarovskii.

Archieven. --- Buitenlandse vestigingen --- Kerkgenootschappen. --- Sint-Petersburg (stad) --- 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.) --- Church history

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This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change. Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters-the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.

Popular culture --- Theater --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History. --- actors. --- aesthetics. --- audience response. --- censorship. --- consumer culture. --- directors. --- dissident. --- factory workers. --- imperial russia. --- moscow. --- peoples theater. --- performance. --- performing arts. --- political change. --- political reform. --- politics. --- popular culture. --- popular theater. --- protest. --- reform. --- resistance. --- revolution. --- russia. --- russian culture. --- russian history. --- russian politics. --- russian revolution. --- russian theater. --- serfs. --- social change. --- st petersburg. --- theater critics. --- theater. --- theaters. --- theatrical repertoire. --- tsarist russia. --- working class.