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'By the Banks of the Neva'
Anthony Cross
其他書名
Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1997
主題
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Russia / General
History / Russia / Imperial
History / Europe / Renaissance
ISBN
0521552931
9780521552936
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dllhLfswelQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and, more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire. Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the activities of the British within various fields such as commerce, the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the variety and character of Russia's British community.