Search Results for petersburg

...J. M. Coetzee Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 J. M. Coetzee From The Master of Petersburg ^Jood morning. I have come to claim (he is surprised at how steady his voice is) some belongings of my son s. My son was involved in an accident last month, and the police took charge...

...Donald J. Raleigh Donald J. Raleigh Beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg: Some Reflections on the August Revolution, Provincial Russia, and Novostroika Rom its earliest days, the Soviet regime has demonstrated an unrivaled capacity among the major powers to project an image to the outside world...

...Nellie P. Dunn Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 General Lee in Grant s Petersburg Progress Nellie P. Dunn Richmond, Va. When, on that famous Monday, the third of April, 1865, the advance line of attack on Petersburg found the city evacuated by the Confederate troops, almost...

...D. Hamilton Willcox; Esq. Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Was John Randolph a Lunatic? D. Hamilton Willcox, Esq. Attorney at law, Petersburg, Va. In dealing with a character in history of less than first import­ ance it often chances that the reviewer will magnify virtues...

... its appearance. The physiographical factor influencing the railroad routes was the fall line.3 Beginning at Trenton, New Jersey, this line runs southward through Philadelphia, Baltimore, Fred­ ericksburg, Richmond, and Petersburg. The fall line and the tide line to this point coincide. Leaving...

... with the main portion of his army and commenced intrenching. That the Confederate authorities should have been thrown into a panic by this sudden manoeuvre was most natural when one considers the inadequacy of the defenses then available for Petersburg and the southern side of Richmond, and the strategic...

..., and Kaunas and in other leading Russian cities, e.g., St. Petersburg, Mos­ cow, Kiev, and Odessa. If one were motoring, it was possible to secure road maps with all necessary directions in German. It could be taken for granted that managers, clerks, and porters in the chief hotels of these cities and of many...

...Charles W. Peppler Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Sinai Manuscript of the Bible Charles W. Peppker Professor of Greek in Trinity College The three oldest and best manuscripts of the Bible, the Sinaitic in St. Petersburg, the Vatican in Rome, and the Alexandrine...

... started for Europe, going first to London and then to Paris. Mr. White did not at once proceed to St. Petersburg, but while the minister and other members of his suite went on to the Russian capital, he remained in Paris to thoroughly familiarize himself with the French lan­ guage, to increase his...

... and Political Thought (1999) and many articles published in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov, and so on. 662 Notes on Contributors dina khapaeva is currently a professor in history and director for interna- tional affairs at Saint-Petersburg State University’s Smolny College of Lib- eral Arts...

... with the SpoonSangamon environment or stem directly from it. Autobiographical material is rich here, and Masters himself, his father, and his grand­ parents appear not once but often under very thin disguises. For many of these episodes, unlike his model, Mark Twain, who at least concealed Hannibal as St. Petersburg...

...; see, for example, T. Iuzefovich, Dogovory Rossii s Vostokom, politicheskie torgovye (St. Petersburg: Tip. O. I. Baksta, 1869), pp. 231-236. See also O pervykh Rossiiskikh puteshestviiakh i posol stvakh v Kitai, Ezhemesiachnyia sochineniia, k pol ze i uveseleniiu sluzhashchie (10 vols. in 20; St...

... of attendance. Richmond Enquirer, April 24: Notice to Delegates to the Educational Convention at Columbia, S. C., April 28, 1863. The presidents of the following railroads have kindly consented to give the delegates attending the convention free tickets both ways, viz.: The Petersburg and Weldon Railroad...

... three-volume study of filmmaker Dziga Vertov is forthcoming. Artemy Magun is a professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg. He also teaches at Saint Petersburg State University (Smolny College), Rus- sia. He is the author of Negative Revolution (2013) and a number of articles...

... grandeur of the palaces and monuments of Saint Petersburg, in the galloons of the ministers’ uniforms and the luxury of the Peterhoff fountains. One of the very first indicators of the deficit of identity was the exaggera- tion of the ‘‘Moscow as the Third Rome’’ political theory, which started...

... with the Russian prole­ tariat and peasantry who had thrown off the yoke of tsarism that had oppressed them for centuries.3 The Independent Socialist organ, the Leipziger Volkszeitung, acclaimed the Petersburg Soviet as the first institution established to represent the Russian proletariat.4 Even the radical...

... to Bayard Taylor, United States min­ ister to St. Petersburg, while the Russian fleet in our harbors seemed Getting along with the Romanovs 345 to be defending the Union, She [Russia] has our friendship, in every case, in preference to any other European power, simply be­ cause she always wishes us well...

... Concord, June 22, 1830, § and after stopping in England, arrived at Cronstadt, the port of St. Petersburg, August 9.11 Immediately upon his arrival Randolph began to despair of the success of his mission. Count Nesselrode was at Carlsbad in dis­ grace, and Prince Lieven, the Russian ambassador at London...

... of the book. It begins with Richard Bennehan s move from Virginia to Piedmont North Carolina, in the area drained by the Eno, Little, and Flat rivers. The road he travels from Petersburg follows the earlier Old Indian Trading Path, which led from Petersburg to the South Carolina border. Bennehan s selection...

... Bennehan s move from Virginia to Piedmont North Carolina, in the area drained by the Eno, Little, and Flat rivers. The road he travels from Petersburg follows the earlier Old Indian Trading Path, which led from Petersburg to the South Carolina border. Bennehan s selection of a site for his home, Stagville...