the old collection "of daily life in time ..", created before the war and perpetuated for many years, contains many treasures, often entrusted to great authors. This work remarkably well written, didactic and synthetic, made me discover the elegance of the writing of Jean Marabini, (who was among other columnist in the world in the 70s). Taking the step by step sequence of events of the Russian Revolution, which in no way limited to October, the author not only offers us a perspective and a refresh our historical knowledge but enriches our walks in Saint Petersburg, referring to the precise locations of the various events. Although this was not the particular design of the author, I recommend this reading to deepen and illuminate walks in St. Petersburg whose various districts and monuments are responsible for direction as we understand better happened there. Like a walk in Paris that would take us from the suburbs furniture craftsmen at Concorde through the concierge and the convent of the Carmelites, or the Hotel de Lamballe, remains incomprehensible to the tourist who holds not the thread and carefree in his shorts and his T-shirt, does not care that here the blood has flowed, the only aesthetic contemplation of the wonderful Smolny Convent and its blue and white baroque ornaments, or of the villa Mathilde Kchechinskaïa new art does not tell us why here this gigantic site (hideous incidentally) is called "the dictatorship of the proletariat" or why there appears on the elegant façade Mongoloid profile of a man named Lenin . One complaint: the author does not cite its sources; we would have appreciated a bibliography! One more word: the vile plastic bindings modern editions, prefer a simple paperback copy.
