Vilnius. The city of wanderers
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In the book of the Lithuanian-Kanadsky geographer and cultural historian Laimonas Bedis, the history of the multicultural capital of Lithuania from her “birth in Europe” of the XIV century to the present day is told. Vilnius as a “geographical personality” and “historical hero” is shown through the eyes of the “strangers” who visited him. Based on numerous sources in different languages, the author traces what cartographic, political and cultural meanings the city was endowed in different periods of its history. The capital of the pagan principality through the eyes of Catholic missionaries, the baroque city in the vastness of mythical sarmatia through the eyes of European cartographers, the Polish province through the eyes of the famous traveler and naturalist George Forster, the city of the war of the 1812, the eyes of the Viennese doctor Joseph Frank, Vilna, as part of the Russian Empire, through the eyes of Russian classics (Alexander Ostrovsky, the eyes of the Russian Empire, Fedor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy), the occupied city during the First World War through the eyes of a German Flanger soldier, the mysterious Jewish Vilna through the eyes of the German writer Alfred Dyublin-these are only some of the plots included in the polyphonic narrative of Vilnius
Author:
Author:Brigidis Limonas
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Hse Bibliotheca Selecta
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7598-1966-0
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