Keenan, Paul 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8043-9512
(2010)
The summer gardens in the social life of St Petersburg, 1725-61.
Slavonic and East European Review, 88 (1-2).
pp. 134-155.
ISSN 0037-6795
Abstract
The Summer Gardens in St Petersburg are considered symbolic of Peter I's `Europeanizing' aims for his `new' city. While their physical appearance naturally displays the influence and input of foreign personnel, the gardens' role as a social space for the ruler, the court and other privileged groups sheds light on another area of comparison with contemporary European practice. This article examines the social function of the Summer Gardens in the understudied period between Peter I and Catherine II and the access granted to social groups beyond the court elite in the 1750s, albeit with firm restrictions still in place
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Journals/seer.... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 MHRA |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2011 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32124 |
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