TY - BOOK AU - George, Arthur TI - St. Petersburg: the first three centuries SN - 0750938048 U1 - 947 PY - 2004/// CY - Stroud PB - Sutton Publishing KW - History Chronicles KW - Russia KW - History N1 - 1. A giant's vision: a new national life -- 2. Building Peter's paradise -- 3. Life in Peter's paradise -- 4. Decline and rebirth -- 5. looking like Europe: Elizabeth's Petersburg -- 6. Thinking like Europe: the Petersburg of Catherine II -- 7. Petersburg under the Errant Knight -- 8. Crossroads: Alexander I and the Decembrist Rebellion -- 9. Pushkin's St. Petersburg, imperial St. Petersburg -- 10. Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg -- 11. From World of art to Apocalypse -- 12. Cradle of revolution and despair -- 13. becoming Leningrad: the revenge of Muscovy -- 14. Hero city -- 15. Rocking the cradle -- 16. The revenge of St. Petersberg ER -