The Camera And The Tsars
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The Camera And The Tsars
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Author : Charlotte Zeepvat
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
Release Date : 2004-01-01
The Camera And The Tsars written by Charlotte Zeepvat and has been published by Sutton Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for a little over three hundred years and their story, ending with their tragic deaths, has exerted a lasting fascination. This new book, an album of pictures gathered by the author over many years - the majority of which are unpublished - shows the extended Romanov family. There are formal portraits taken to celebrate comings of age, weddings or other family gatherings, but also pictures of the various members of the dynasty at their ease, or dressed up for formal banquets, balls or ceremonies of state. Children play or take rides in horse-carts, mothers tend their children, brothers and sisters walk in the gardens of the grand palaces in which they lived - Gatchina, Ilinskoie, the Alexander Palace. The photographs range from the 1860s, when Alexander II was Tsar, through the reigns of his son, and grandson to the 1930s, when remaining members of the dynasty could be found in the outposts of Europe. people's perception of the monarchy: for the first time ordinary people could see exactly what their monarch looked like, and they became aware of them as human beings - who were confident or shy before the camera, and whose children frowned, sulked or fidgeted. It was perhaps just such familiarity, rather than the deference of the subject, that contributed in part to their downfall
The Camera And The Tsars
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Author : Charlotte Zeepvat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Camera And The Tsars written by Charlotte Zeepvat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Russia categories.
Photographs For The Tsar
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Author : Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1983
Photographs For The Tsar written by Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Photographers categories.
The photographs in this extraordinary book are the work of a previously unknown pioneer in early twentieth-century color photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii -- commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1909 to travel throughout the Russian empire taking photographs. Prokudin-Gorskii managed to bring out of Russia his collection of nearly 2000 glass-plate negatives. This book, produced with the cooperation of the National Archives and the Library of Congress, contains 120 of his finest color photographs -- including the only extant photo in color of Leo Tolstoy. Another 120 have been reproduced in sepia from black-and-white prints. "Photographs for the Tsar" is a landmark contribution to the history of photography. -- Provided by publisher.
The Many Deaths Of Tsar Nicholas Ii
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Author : Wendy Slater
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-06-26
The Many Deaths Of Tsar Nicholas Ii written by Wendy Slater and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime fiction writer discovered the location of their clandestine mass grave, and secretly removed three skulls, before reburying them, afraid of the consequences of their find. Yet the history of Nicholas’ execution and the discovery of his remains are not the only stories connected with the death of the last Tsar. This book recounts the horrific details of his death and the thrilling discovery of the bones, and also investigates the alternative narratives that have grown up around these events. Stories include the contention that the Tsar’s killing was a Jewish plot, in which Nicholas’ severed head was taken to Moscow as proof of his death; tales of would-be survivors of the execution, self-confessed children of the Tsar claiming their true identity; and accounts of miracles performed by Nicholas, who was made a saint by the Russian church in 2000. Not least among these alternative narratives is the romanticization of the Romanovs, epitomized by the numerous photographs of the family released from the Russian archives.
Photographs For The Tsar
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Author : S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii
language : en
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Release Date : 1980
Photographs For The Tsar written by S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii and has been published by Sidgwick & Jackson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Color photography categories.
Photographs For The Tsar
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Author : Sergej M. Prokudin-Gorskij
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Photographs For The Tsar written by Sergej M. Prokudin-Gorskij and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
From The Holy Roman Empire To The Land Of The Tsars
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Author : Alexander M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
From The Holy Roman Empire To The Land Of The Tsars written by Alexander M. Martin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
Presenting a broad panorama of society and culture in the German lands and Russia from the Enlightenment to the breakthrough of modernity, this microhistory of one extraordinary family explores how the lives of individual people are entangled with the great forces of their age.
Photographs For The Tsar
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Author : Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 1980-09-01
Photographs For The Tsar written by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-09-01 with Photography categories.
Prokudin-Gorskii produced hundreds of photographs of Russia's landscapes and architecture at the turn of the century
The True Memoirs Of Little K
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Author : Adrienne Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2010-10-26
The True Memoirs Of Little K written by Adrienne Sharp and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Fiction categories.
Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made. Kschessinka's riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersection of the Russian court and the Russian theater. Before the revolution, Kschessinska dominated that world as the greatest dancer of her age. At seventeen, her crisp, scything technique made her a star. So did her romance with the tsarevich Nicholas Romanov, soon to be Nicholas II. It was customary for grand dukes and sons of tsars to draw their mistresses from the ranks of the ballet, but it was not customary for them to fall in love. The affair could not endure: when Nicholas ascended to the throne as tsar, he was forced to give up his mistress, and Kschessinska turned for consolation to his cousins, two grand dukes with whom she formed an infamous ménage à trois. But when Nicholas's marriage to Alexandra wavered after she produced girl after girl, he came once again to visit his Little K. As the tsar's empire—one that once made up a third of the world—began its fatal crumble, Kschessinka's devotion to the imperial family would be tested in ways she could never have foreseen. In Adrienne Sharp's magnificently imagined novel, the last days of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov empire are relived. Through Kschessinska's memories of her own triumphs and defeats, we witness the stories that changed history: the seething beginnings of revolution, the blindness of the doomed court, the end of a grand, decadent way of life that belonged to the nineteenth century. Based on fact, The True Memoirs of Little K is historical fiction as it's meant to be written: passionately eventful, crammed with authentic detail, and alive with emotions that resonate still.
From Splendor To Revolution
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Author : Julia P. Gelardi
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2011-02-15
From Splendor To Revolution written by Julia P. Gelardi and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with History categories.
This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet Union. At the center of all this tumult were four women of the Romanov dynasty. Marie Alexandrovna and Olga Constantinovna were born into the family, Russian Grand Duchesses at birth. Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna married into the dynasty, the former born a Princess of Denmark, the latter a Duchess of the German duchy of Mecklendburg-Schwerin. In From Splendor to Revolution, we watch these pampered aristocratic women fight for their lives as the cataclysm of war engulfs them. In a matter of a few short years, they fell from the pinnacle of wealth and power to the depths of danger, poverty, and exile. It is an unforgettable epic story.