A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia
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A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia
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Author : Y. Barchatova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia written by Y. Barchatova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Photography categories.
For the first time since the Russian Revolution, the Soviet government has opened up its great photographic archives to the West. Here is the first selection from this treasure trove of photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia: from the archives of the Centre for Film and Photographic Archive, Leningrad; Central Archive for Russian Film and Photography, Krasnogorsk; State History Museum, Moscow; Leningrad Public Library; Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Museum, Leningrad and State Literature Museum, Moscow.
A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia
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Author : Y. Barchatova
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1989
A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia written by Y. Barchatova and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Photographs depict daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia
Village Life In Late Tsarist Russia
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Author : Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1993-05-22
Village Life In Late Tsarist Russia written by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-22 with History categories.
" . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb." —Steven Hoch " . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry." —Samuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, Semyonova's ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.
Late Tsarist Russia 1881 1913
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Author : Beryl Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-17
Late Tsarist Russia 1881 1913 written by Beryl Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with History categories.
This book brings together the large volume of work on late Tsarist Russia published over the last 30 years, to show an overall picture of Russia under the last two tsars - before the war brought down not only the Russian empire but also those of Germany, Austria–Hungary and Turkey. It turns the attention from the old emphases on workers, revolutionaries, and a reactionary government, to a more diverse and nuanced picture of a country which was both a major European great power, facing the challenges of modernization and industrialization, and also a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional empire stretching across both Europe and Asia.
Tutor To The Tsarevich
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Author : Charles Sydney Gibbes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Tutor To The Tsarevich written by Charles Sydney Gibbes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For The Love Of An Empress
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Author : Lili Dehn
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-06
For The Love Of An Empress written by Lili Dehn and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-06 with categories.
For Lili Dehn, who came to the last Russian Imperial Court as a young girl and who was destined to become one of the star-crossed Empress Alexandra's closest and most devoted confidantes, it was love at first sight: At last, advancing slowly through masses of greenery, came a tall and slender figure. It was the Empress. I looked at her, admiration in my heart and in my eyes. I had never imagined her to be half so fair and I shall never forget her beauty as I saw her on that July morning, although the Empress of many sorrows remains with me more as a moving and holy memory. She was dressed entirely in white, with a thin white veil draped round her hat. Her complexion was delicate, but when she was excited her cheeks were suffused with a faint rose flush. Her hair was reddish-gold, her eyes - those infinitely tragic eyes - were dark blue, and her figure was as supple as a willow wand. I remember that her pearls were magnificent and that diamond earrings flashed colored fires whenever she moved her head. She wore a simple little ring bearing the emblem of the Swastika, her favorite symbol - one that has given rise to so many conjectures and been quoted triumphantly as proof positive of her leanings toward the occult by those who are ignorant of what it really meant to her. On her escape to England after the Russian Revolution and after the execution of the Imperial Family, Lili became determined to tell the truth about Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra as she had known them over many years. To her certain knowledge, they had been among the kindest, the most decent and the most considerate of people imaginable, surrounded by a loving and devoted family. Those who said otherwise hadn't known them and had been systematically deceived by false rumors and relentless anti-Tsarist propaganda. It was time to set the record straight.
Russian Life To Day
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Author : Herbert Bp. Bury
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-25
Russian Life To Day written by Herbert Bp. Bury and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-25 with Fiction categories.
As one can surmise from the title, 'Russian Life Today' is a book where the author gives a glimpse of what life was like in Russia—which in this particular case, is done through the perspective of an American Assistant Bishop to the Bishop of London, holding a commission as bishop in charge of Anglican work in North and Central Europe. He was on duty there during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Portrait Of A Russian Province
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Author : Catherine Evtuhov
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2011-11-13
Portrait Of A Russian Province written by Catherine Evtuhov and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-13 with History categories.
Several stark premises have long prevailed in our approach to Russian history. It was commonly assumed that Russia had always labored under a highly centralized and autocratic imperial state. The responsibility for this lamentable state of affairs was ultimately assigned to the profoundly agrarian character of Russian society. The countryside, home to the overwhelming majority of the nation's population, was considered a harsh world of cruel landowners and ignorant peasants, and a strong hand was required for such a crude society. A number of significant conclusions flowed from this understanding. Deep and abiding social divisions obstructed the evolution of modernity, as experienced "naturally" in other parts of Europe, so there was no Renaissance or Reformation; merely a derivative Enlightenment; and only a distorted capitalism. And since only despotism could contain these volatile social forces, it followed that the 1917 Revolution was an inevitable explosion resulting from these intolerable contradictions—and so too were the blood-soaked realities of the Soviet regime that came after. In short, the sheer immensity of its provincial backwardness could explain almost everything negative about the course of Russian history. This book undermines these preconceptions. Through her close study of the province of Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century, Catherine Evtuhov demonstrates how nearly everything we thought we knew about the dynamics of Russian society was wrong. Instead of peasants ground down by poverty and ignorance, we find skilled farmers, talented artisans and craftsmen, and enterprising tradespeople. Instead of an exclusively centrally administered state, we discover effective and participatory local government. Instead of pervasive ignorance, we are shown a lively cultural scene and an active middle class. Instead of a defining Russian exceptionalism, we find a world recognizable to any historian of nineteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of Russian social, environmental, economic, cultural, and intellectual history, and synthesizing it with deep archival research of the Nizhnii Novgorod province, Evtuhov overturns a simplistic view of the Russian past. Rooted in, but going well beyond, provincial affairs, her book challenges us with an entirely new perspective on Russia's historical trajectory.
Picturing Russia
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Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Picturing Russia written by Valerie Ann Kivelson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with History categories.
What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
Russia In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Polunov
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date :
Russia In The Nineteenth Century written by Polunov and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Russia categories.
This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople, peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers, complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property in land and the relationship between state regulation and private initiative in the economy.