Radost" Zhizni Byloi...": Problemy Urbanizma v Russkoi Khudozhestvennoi Literature

A historian of urban studies N.P. Antsiferov is well known for his books The Soul of St. Petersburg, History and Myth St. Petersburg, and The St. Petersburg of Dostoevsky. This book is about the power of a big city over its dwellers in novels by Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky.