Vilnius. The city of wanderers
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In the book of the Lithuanian-Canadian geographer and cultural historian Laimonas Bedis, the history of the multicultural capital of Lithuania from her "birth in Europe" to the present day is told. Vilnius as a "geographical person" 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 with 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 period of the war of 1812 through the eyes of the Viennese doctor Joseph Frank, Vilna, as part of the Russian Empire, through the eyes of Russian classics (Alexander Ostrovsky. Fedor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy), the occupied city during the First World War through the eyes of a German Flanger soldier, mysterious
Author:
Author:Brigidis Limonas
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7598-2540-1
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