Publications on Regional Ethnography (entry)

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PUBLICATIONS ON REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY include books and articles devoted to one or another district or territory. Foreigners who visited the city from the 1710s were the first to publish information about St. Petersburg. The work by А. I. Bogdanov Historical, Geographical and Topographic description of St. Petersburg from Its Emergence, from 1703 to 1751 (published in 1779) was prepared in 1752. In 1794, I. G. Georgi published the Description of the Russian Imperial City St. Petersburg and of the Sights in Its Suburbs. Later Sights of Petersburg and Its Outskirts by P. P. Svinyin (volumes 1-6, 1816-28), Panorama of St. Petersburg by A. P. Bashutsky (volumes 1-3, 1834) were published. Publications in which information about the state, religious, public and educational institutions, markets, shops, streets, squares and other city objects assumed the leading position started to appear after the publication of the Newest Guide Book of St. Petersburg by F. A. Schreder (1820). All Petersburg in a Pocket by A. N. Grech (1846), the Historical Reference of Sights of Petersburg by I. I. Pushkarev (1846) are publications of such a type. The book by V. Buryanov Walk with Children along St. Petersburg and Outskirts (1838) is addressed to children. Reference books devoted to separate institutions: The First Twenty Five Years of the Imperial St. Petersburg University by P. A. Pletnev (1844), The Historical-Statistical Review of Educational Institutions of St. Petersburg Educational District from 1715 to 1828 by A. Voronov (1849), The Historical-Statistic Information about St. Petersburg Eparchy (inssues 1-10, St. Petersburg, 1869-85) etc. - were published from the 1840s. The History of St. Petersburg from the Foundation of the City up to the Introduction of the Elected City Administration in Institutions and Provinces. 1703-1782 by P. N. Petrov (1885), Old Petersburg (1887) and The Forgotten Past of the Outskirts of Petersburg (1889) by M. I. Pylyaev became an important milestone in the study of St. Petersburg regional ethnography. Studying of the city as a social-economic structure and historical-cultural monument developed in the publications about regional ethnography from the beginning of the 20th century. The development of a scientific approach to regional ethnography was impeded in the 1930s-50s, and only started to take place from the half of the 1950s. The encyclopedic reference book Leningrad was published in 1957; the Literary Memorial Places of Leningrad were published in 1959. The reference book by K. S. Gorbachevich and E. P. Khablo Why are They So Called? (1967) and the Architectural Guide Book of Leningrad (1971) are remarkable among the publications of the 1960s-70s. Articles about the history and architecture of the city and about outstanding people, memoirs and archival documents started to be published in the periodicals Bloknot Agitatora, Arhitektura i Stroitel'stvo Leningrada, Leningradskaya Panorama, and the almanac Belye Nochi. The Leningrad Publishing House started publishing of the series of books Architects of Our City, Leningrad for the Tourist, Outstanding Figures of Science and Culture in Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad. Guide books about the city were systematically published including Leningrad (1986) compiled by V. A. Vityazeva and B. M. Kirikov. Anthologies with the results of historical-ethnographical studies carried out at the Memorial N. N. Miklukho-Maclay Institute of Ethnography, the works of scientific papers and conferences devoted to various aspects of the history of St. Petersburg started to be published from the end of the 1980s. The encyclopedic reference book St. Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad was published in 1992. The Museum of еру History of St. Petersburg has been publishing Notes of Regional Ethnography and Works since the 1990s, St. Petersburg Department of the Fund of Culture has been publishing the anthology Nevsky Archive, the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture at the Administration of St. Petersburg prepared the essential reference book Monuments of the History and Culture of St. Petersburg under State Protection (2000) and the Historical Buildings of St. Petersburg (2001). The publishing house of Pushkin's Fund has been publishing the series of books Past St. Petersburg: A Panorama of Capital Life since 1995. The reference book Architects-constructors of St. Petersburg from the middle of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries was published in 1996, the encyclopaedia of church history Sanctuaries of St. Petersburg by V. V. Antonov and A. V. Kobak (volumes 1-3) was published in 1994-96. Works by Y. N. Bespyatykh Petersburg of Peter I in the Descriptions by Foreigners (1991) and Petersburg of Anna Ioannovna in the Descriptions by Foreigners (1997), books by D. L. Spivak The Northern Capital: Metaphysics of Petersburg (1998), the Real Petersburg (1999) by D. B. Gubin, L. Y. Lourie, I. G. Poroshin etc. contain valuable materials about St. Petersburg.

References: Лурье Л. Я., Кобак А. В. Заметки о смысле петербургского краеведения // Анциферовские чтения: Материалы и тез. конф. Л., 1989. С. 72-79; Их же. Рождение и гибель петербургской идеи // Музей и город. СПб., 1993. С. 23-31. (Арс; №2); Острой О. С. С чего начиналась петербургиана: Описание путеводителей по городу с момента их возникновения до середины XIX столетия // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. СПб., 1997. [Вып.] 3. С. 481-491.

V. A. Frolov. Antonov Viktor Vasilievich
Bashutsky Alexander Pavlovich
Bespyatyh Yury Nikolaevich
Bogdanov Andrey Ivanovich
Burnashev Vladimir Petrovich (Buryanov V.)
Gorbachevich Kirill Sergeevich
Grech Alexey Nikolaevich
Gubin D.B.
Khablo Evgeny Petrovich
Kirikov Boris Mikhailovich
Kobak Alexander Valerievich
Miklukho-Maclay Nikolay Nikolaevich
Petrov Peter Nikolaevich
Pletnev Peter Alexandrovich
Poroshin I.G.
Pushkarev Ivan Ilyich
Pylyaev Mikhail Ivanovich
Ruban Vasily Grigorievich
Schroder Fedor Andreevich
Spivak Dmitry Leonidovich
Svinyin Pavel Petrovich
Vityazeva Vera Alexandrovna
Voronov A.
Кобак А. В., Лурье Л. Я. Заметки о смысле петербургского краеведения // Анциферовские чтения: Материалы и тез. конф. Л., 1989
Кобак А. В., Лурье Л. Я. Рождение и гибель петербургской идеи // Музей и город. СПб., 1993
Острой О. С. С чего начиналась петербургиана: Описание путеводителей по городу с момента их возникновения до середины XIX столетия // Невский архив: Ист.-краевед. сб. СПб., 1997 Bloknot Agitatora (The Agitator's Notebook), journal
Leningrad Panorama, journal
Architects of Our City, publication series
Kraevedcheskie Zapiski (Notes of Regional Ethnography), periodical
Nevsky Arkhiv (The Neva Archive), almanac
1996