Lost Splendour And The Death Of Rasputin
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Lost Splendour And The Death Of Rasputin
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Author : Felix Yusupov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Lost Splendour And The Death Of Rasputin written by Felix Yusupov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with categories.
In this extraordinary memoir Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov recounts the early, heady days of the 20th century and his plot to kill the 'mad monk' Rasputin in gruesome, thrilling prose. After a glamorous life in England, partying with the rich and famous at Oxford and London he eventually returned to Russia where he married Princess Irina of Russia, the Tsar's only niece, only to realise that his beloved Russia was on the verge of catastrophe, blaming Rasputin for his disastrous influence on the Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina. On the night of 30th December 1916, Yusupov murdered Rasputin, an event relayed in chilling detail in these memoirs.
Lost Splendor
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Author : Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
language : en
Publisher: Helen Marx
Release Date : 2003
Lost Splendor written by Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ) and has been published by Helen Marx this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
Lost Splendor
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Author : Prince Felix Youssoupoff
language : en
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Lost Splendor written by Prince Felix Youssoupoff and has been published by Turtle Point Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The autobiography of the man who killed Rasputin.
City Of Lingering Splendor
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Author : John Blofeld
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2001-05-01
City Of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with History categories.
In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
Lost Splendor
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Author : Feliks Feliksovitch Iousoupov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Lost Splendor written by Feliks Feliksovitch Iousoupov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Russia categories.
Lost Splendour
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Author : Prince Youssoupoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Lost Splendour written by Prince Youssoupoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.
Common Sense Wisdom
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Author : Pepper de Callier
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Common Sense Wisdom written by Pepper de Callier and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with categories.
For over fifty years, Pepper de Callier has been collecting quotes. But not just any quotes. Throughout his research and engagement with people as the founder and Executive Director of Prague Leadership Institute, he has identified quotes that have changed lives. Drawn from the world's greatest writers, thinkers and leaders from across the ages, and illuminated by Pepper's insights as one of Europe's preeminent career and life coaches, Common-Sense Wisdom- A Trusted Companion for your Life and Career Journey has the power to trigger self-awareness, honest reflection, and the compass points to help you find your own direction. Whether you are a CEO, recent graduate, or working your way through the normal ups and downs of personal and professional growth, these common-sense insights will help you view challenges and opportunities in a whole new way, and turn around even the most difficult of days.
Ten Days That Shook The World
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Author : John Reed
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Ten Days That Shook The World written by John Reed and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.
"This book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it.” So begins John Reed’s first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Much anticipated when it was published in 1919, Reed’s narrative remains as riveting today as when the events he describes were still reverberating throughout the world. Reed was hardly a disinterested observer, and his involvement in the Communist labor movement lends urgency and passion to his classic account. He vividly describes events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and seized the reins of power. Despite Reed’s personal leanings, which he made no attempt to hide, the book garnered praise from luminaries across the political spectrum. George F. Kennan, the American diplomat, and father of the policy of Soviet containment, said that “Reed’s account of the events of that time rises above every other contemporary record for its literary power, its penetration, its command of detail. It will be remembered when all others are forgotten." Reed was committed to telling the story of the Russian revolution as truthfully as possible. That the book was banned by Russian premier Josef Stalin is a testament to the author’s success in carrying out his mission. One hundred years after Russia and the world trembled, Ten Days that Shook the World brings alive the momentous events of 1917.
Memory Politics In Contemporary Russia
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Author : Mariëlle Wijermars
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-11
Memory Politics In Contemporary Russia written by Mariëlle Wijermars and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has increasingly actively employed cultural memory to claim political legitimacy and discredit all forms of political opposition. The rhetorical use of the past has become a defining characteristic of Russian politics, creating a historical foundation for the regime’s emphasis on a strong state and centralised leadership. Exploring memory politics, this book analyses a wide range of actors, from the central government and the Russian Orthodox Church, to filmmaker and cultural heavyweight Nikita Mikhalkov and radical thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin. In addition, in view of the steady decline in media freedom since 2000, it critically examines the role of cinema and television in shaping and spreading these narratives. Thus, this book aims to gain a better understanding of the various means through which the Russian government practices its memory politics (e.g., the role of state media) and, on the other hand, to sufficiently value the existence of alternative and critical voices and criticism that existing studies tend to overlook. Contributing to current debates in the field of memory studies and of current affairs in Russia and Eastern Europe, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of Russian Studies, Cultural Memory Studies, Nationalism and National Identity, Political Communication, Film, Television and Media Studies.
A Dangerous Enterprise
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Author : Tim Spicer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-09-07
A Dangerous Enterprise written by Tim Spicer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with categories.
Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was called the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla- crewed by 125 officers and men, it became the most highly decorated Royal Naval unit of the Second World War. The 15th MGBF was an extraordinary group of men thrown together in the most secret of adventures. Very few were regular Royal Naval officers- instead the unit was made up of mostly Royal Naval Volunteer Officers and 'duration only' sailors. Their home was a converted paddle steamer and luxury yacht, but their work could not have been more serious. Their mission was to ferry agents of SIS and SOE to pinpoint landing sites on the Brittany coast in Occupied France. Once they had landed their agents, together with stores for the Resistance, they picked up evaders, escaped POWs who had had the good fortune to be collected by escape lines run by M19, as well as returning SIS and SOE agents. It is a story that is inextricably entwined with that of the many agents they were responsible for - Pierre Hentic, Yves Le Tac, Virginia Hall, Albert Hue, Jeannie Rousseau, Suzanne Warengham, Fran ois Mitterrand and Mathilde Carre, as well as many others. Without the Flotilla, such intelligence gathering networks as Jade Fitzroy and Alliance would never have developed, and SOE's VAR Line and MI9's Shelburne Escape Line would never have been realised. Drawing on a huge amount of research on both sides of the Channel, including private archives of many of the families involved, A Dangerous Enterprise brings the story of this most clandestine of operations brilliantly to life.