By the Banks of the Neva. Chapters from the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth century Russia
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- Author(s) Cross, Anthony J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 474pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the wide ranging lives and activities of British subjects resident in Russia, especially St Petersburg, notably covering merchants organised in the Russia Co and including John Cayley, Robert Nettleton; shipbuilding craftsmen and experts including Joseph Nye and Alexander Sutherland; instrument makers; architects and planners such as Charles Cameron and William Hastie; Charles Gascoigne, industrialist. Also covers medicine, the church, etc