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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.
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'by the Banks of the Neva': Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511821069 9780511821066
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'by the Banks of the Neva': Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511581815 9780511581816
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'By the Banks of the Neva': Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia
August 20, 2007, Cambridge University Press
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
0521039037 9780521039031
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'By the Banks of the Neva': Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia
November 13, 1996, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover
in English
0521552931 9780521552936
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