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4 juillet 2018
- handle: 10670/1.aw5xdx
- isbn: 9781783743735
- eisbn: 9791036509681
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Katherine Bowers, « 12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.aw5xdx
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Nevskii Prospekt has long been St Petersburg’s famous boulevard; it was where Imperial Russian high society went to see and be seen, as well as home to all the best shops: confectionaries, vintners, haberdashers, bootmakers, swordmakers, modistes, milliners. Thanks to the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century mania for urban depiction, in artists’ renderings and writers’ sketches we have “snapshots”—in a sense—of the street’s life, giving insight into its appearance before the development of phot...