St. Petersburg and Moscow in twentieth-century Russian literature

Isobel Palmer

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_12

St. Petersburg and Moscow in twentieth-century Russian literature

Isobel Palmer

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Abstract

At one pole, St. Petersburg, the rectilinear city built on desolate marshland by the sheer force of one man’s will, gazing from Russia’s northern border towards the West and modernity; at the other, Moscow, sprawling and chaotic capital of old Rus’, geographical and emotional heart of Russia. This is the central dichotomy around which Russia’s urban myth has grown, in which the country’s two largest cities are as inherently opposed as the masculine and feminine genders of their Russian (or not-so-Russian) names, Sankt-Petersburg and Moskva.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
Editors	Jeremy Tambling
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	197-214
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-54911-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-54910-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_12
Publication status	Published - 27 Feb 2017

Keywords

Urban Landscape
City Street
Feminine Gender
Side Street
Russian City

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