'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid.'
Gerard DeGroot, The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK
So fluent, so textured is Jonathan Miles’s ease with prose and argument that his vivid dissection of 300 years of St Petersburg’s historyshould be devoured in captive sittings... Investigating the art ...
Susan Sheahan, Guardian
[A] lively and entertaining biography... full of sparkling storytelling and well drawn characters... a delight.
Victor Sebestyen, The Sunday Times
'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid.'
Gerard DeGroot, The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK
So fluent, so textured is Jonathan Miles’s ease with prose and argument that his vivid dissection of 300 years of St Petersburg’s historyshould be devoured in captive sittings... Investigating the art ...
Susan Sheahan, Guardian
[A] lively and entertaining biography... full of sparkling storytelling and well drawn characters... a delight.
Victor Sebestyen, The Sunday Times
'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid.'
Gerard DeGroot, The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK
So fluent, so textured is Jonathan Miles’s ease with prose and argument that his vivid dissection of 300 years of St Petersburg’s historyshould be devoured in captive sittings... Investigating the art ...
Susan Sheahan, Guardian
[A] lively and entertaining biography... full of sparkling storytelling and well drawn characters... a delight.