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Modern Russian Culture is an audio-visual, multi-disciplinary course of thirty-eight lectures on modern Russian culture (from the eighteenth century to our time) presented in a series of Video DVDs and one Reference Disc (DVD-ROM) with high quality photographic images, CD-quality music and narration, and hypertext-linked notes.
The narrated slide-show lectures are divided into five thematic units. This disc includes the following narrated slide-show lectures:
Lecture VII. Petersburg: Nevsky Prospect
Lecture VIII. Petersburg: Nevsky Ensembles
Lecture IX. Petersburg: Central Squares. Part 1
Lecture X. Petersburg: Central Squares. Part 2
Lecture XI. Petersburg: Admiralty Side
Lecture XII. Petersburg: Island and Fortress
Lecture XIII. Russian Architectural Ensembles
In this audio-visual course you will be taken on a journey from the high culture of Moscow and Petersburg architecture to the everyday culture of Soviet Russia to Russia as it was seen by great Russian artists and back down again to the everyday reality of Russia in the 1990s when it was transformed by the democratic movement.
The course is available through as a boxed set of 6 discs and also as individual discs (5 video DVDs for DVD players and 1 DVD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh computers).
