Item #2242 Dvorianskie usad'by Sankt-Peterburgskoi gubernii: Vsevolozhskii raion (Estates of the Nobility in St. Petersburg Guberniia. Vsevolozhskii Region). A. P. Myslina N. V. Murashova.
Dvorianskie usad'by Sankt-Peterburgskoi gubernii: Vsevolozhskii raion (Estates of the Nobility in St. Petersburg Guberniia. Vsevolozhskii Region)

Dvorianskie usad'by Sankt-Peterburgskoi gubernii: Vsevolozhskii raion (Estates of the Nobility in St. Petersburg Guberniia. Vsevolozhskii Region)

St. Petersburg: Alaborg, 2008. Sewn cl. Some of these estates date to the early eighteenth century; most flourished in the nineteenth. The authors reproduce plans, and photographs of buildings and interiors of extant houses. They identify the owners and residents, such as A. N. Olenin, director of the Public Library and president of the Academy of Fine Arts in the early nineteenth century, and well-known families who had their rural homesteads in the area: the Vorontsovs, the Shuvalovs, and the Levashovs. They describe economic, social, and cultural life on the estates. 319 p., 6 x 8 ½ ins., 187 b-&-w illus. and line drawings, Rus. Item #2242

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