Week Five

Links:

Visual History of St. Petersburg  Explore the links, too.

Links to images of St. Petersburg

Explore the links above on your own (especially in "Album 1," but be sure to look at pictures of the following:   "The Bronze Horseman," The Winter Palace, Peter and Paul Fortress, The Admiralty Tower, Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Nevsky Prospect, and The Neva River.

Russia and St. Petersburg under Elizabeth

Russian Authors on St. Petersburg

Savior on the Blood.  Muscovite style architecture in St. Petersburg.

Smolny Cathedral.

Optional:

Virtual Tour of St. Petersburg

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Links: Lecture notes on "The Rise of Intellectuals in Russia" Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-65)  Very brief description. Portrait of Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (1743-1816) Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802)  Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1744 or 45-1792) Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)  (Wikipedia) Eighteenth Century Art Optional: The European Enlightment	Lomonosov
	Radishchev
	Karamzin     Back to Main Culture Page

Links:

Catherine the Great

Russia and St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great

Portraits of Catherine the Great

Optional:

Catherine II (A more detailed biography)

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