St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City

Blurb

This catalogue celebrates the 2003 exhibition at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, highlighting unique materials form Yale’s research collections, brought together to celebrate St. Petersburg in its tercentennial year. Accounts by visitors to the city, engravings, maps, and photographs (including unique shots of the last tsar and his family) create a timeline for the rise of one of the world’s most written-about cities.