St Petersburg: Three Centuries Of Murderous Desire Jonathan Miles Windmill Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ This Extraordinary Book Brings To Life An Astonishing Place Beautiful Prose Renders Brutality Vivid\ The Times - Of Week From Peter Great Putin Is Unforgettable Story St Petersburg – One Most Magical Menacing And Influential Cities In World Has Always Felt Like Impossible Metropolis Risen Freezing Mists Flooded Marshland River Neva On Western Edge Russia It Was A New Capital Old Country Established 1703 By Sheer Will Its Charismatic Founder Homicidal Megalomaniac Peter-The-Great Dazzling Yet Unhinged Reputation Quickly Fashioned Sadistic Dominion Early Rulers City Successive Incarnations Petrograd Leningrad Once Again Been Perpetual Contradiction Window Europe Enlightenment But So Much Glory Created Here: Literature Music Dance For Time Political Vision Gave Birth Artistic Genius Pushkin Dostoyevsky Tchaikovsky Shostakovich Pavlova Nureyev All Glittering Palaces Fairytale Balls Enchanting Gardens Blood Thousands Spilt Snow-Filled Streets Hotbed War Revolution Siege Starvation Crucible Lenin Stalin’s Power-Hungry Jonathan Miles Recreates Drama Three Hundred Years Absurd Brilliant Bringing Us Up Present Day When More Fate Hangs Balance Epic Tale Murder Massacre Madness Played Out Against Squalor Splendour Portrait People Σελίδες: 608 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm