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The Shadow Of The Winter Palace
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Author : Edward Crankshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace written by Edward Crankshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Russia categories.
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace
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Author : Edward Crankshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace written by Edward Crankshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace
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Author : Edward Crankshaw
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1976
The Shadow Of The Winter Palace written by Edward Crankshaw and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This history of Russia under the last four Tsars describes how the seeds of revolution culminated in the November revolution.
The Winter Palace
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Author : Eva Stachniak
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-01-10
The Winter Palace written by Eva Stachniak and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with Fiction categories.
From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne. Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the world’s most eminent court. Under the tutelage of Count Bestuzhev, Chancellor and spymaster, Varvara will be educated in skills from lock picking to lovemaking, learning above all else to listen—and to wait for opportunity. That opportunity arrives in a slender young princess from Zerbst named Sophie, a playful teenager destined to become the indomitable Catherine the Great. Sophie’s destiny at court is to marry the Empress’s nephew, but she has loftier, more dangerous ambitions. What Sophie needs is an insider at court, a loyal pair of eyes and ears who knows the traps, the conspiracies, and the treacheries that surround her. Varvara will become Sophie’s confidante—and together the two young women will rise to the pinnacle of absolute power. “A majestic and splendidly written tale of pride, passion, intrigue, and deceit that is brought alive from the first page to the last.”—Rosalind Laker “At the same time baroque and intimate, worldly and domestic, wildly strange and soulfully familiar, The Winter Palace offers a flickering glimpse of history through the gauze of deft entertainment.”—The Washington Post “A thrilling point of view . . . Readers are treated to a firsthand account of the young princess’s slow ascent to the throne, a path deliciously strewn with discarded lovers and sanguine court intrigues.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “[A] brilliant, bold historical novel . . . This superb biographical epic proves the Tudors don’t have a monopoly on marital scandal, royal intrigue, or feminine triumph.”—Booklist (starred review)
Return To The Winter Palace
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Author : John Rae
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-02
Return To The Winter Palace written by John Rae and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with categories.
To Emily the prospect of a cultural holiday in Leningrad seemed rather dull, until an adventure presented itself the moment she and her family stepped off the plane at Leningrad airport. For who was the mysterious Mrs Hannay accompanying them on their tour? And why was her photograph kept by the authorities at Leningrad Airport? Was their Russian guide, the amiable Mr Oblamov, really trailing Mrs Hannay, waiting for a false move? And what was the connection between Mrs Hannay, the Dubinsky family and the Leonardo da Vinci in the Hermitage Museum? Emily felt sure she knew the answer to the mystery and, together with her sister Alyce, was determined to act.
The Winter Palace And The People
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Author : Susan McCaffray
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-21
The Winter Palace And The People written by Susan McCaffray and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with History categories.
St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.
Sunlight At Midnight
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Author : Bruce Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-28
Sunlight At Midnight written by Bruce Lincoln and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with History categories.
For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar Peter the Great had in mind when, in the spring of 1703, he decided to build a new capital in the muddy marshes of the Neva River delta. Located 500 miles below the Arctic Circle, this area, with its foul weather, bad water, and sodden soil, was so unattractive that only a handful of Finnish fisherman had ever settled there. Bathed in sunlight at midnight in the summer, it brooded in darkness at noon in the winter, and its canals froze solid at least five months out of every year. Yet to the Tsar, the place he named Sankt Pieter Burkh had the makings of a "paradise." His vision was soon borne out: though St. Petersburg was closer to London, Paris, and Vienna than to Russia's far-off eastern lands, it quickly became the political, cultural, and economic center of an empire that stretched across more than a dozen time zones and over three continents. In this book, revolutionaries and laborers brush shoulders with tsars, and builders, soldiers, and statesmen share pride of place with poets. For only the entire historical experience of this magnificent and mysterious city can reveal the wealth of human and natural forces that shaped the modern history of it and the nation it represents.
The Winter Palace
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Author : Eva Stachniak
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-01-19
The Winter Palace written by Eva Stachniak and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Fiction categories.
When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for the Empress's heir. Set to spy on her, Vavara soon becomes her friend and confidante, and helps her navigate the illicit liaisons and the treacherous shifting allegiances of the court. But Sophie's destiny is to become the notorious Catherine the Great. Are her ambitions more lofty and far-reaching than anyone suspected, and will she stop at nothing to achieve absolute power?
The Orientalist
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Author : Tom Reiss
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-02-23
The Orientalist written by Tom Reiss and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and discovered a novel instead. Written on the eve of the Second World War, Ali and Nino is a captivating love story set in the glamorous city of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital. The novel's depiction of a lost cosmopolitan society is enthralling, but equally intriguing is the identity of the man who wrote it. Who was its supposed author? And why was he so forgotten that no one could agree on the simplest facts about him? For five years, Reiss tracked Lev Nussimbaum, alias Kurban Said, from a wealthy Jewish childhood in Baku, to a romantic adolescence in Persia on the run from the Bolsheviks, and an exile in Berlin as bestselling author and self-proclaimed Muslim prince. The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth-century - of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism.
Into Siberia
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Author : Gregory J. Wallance
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2023-12-05
Into Siberia written by Gregory J. Wallance and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia to delve into horror without succumbing to despair." — The New York Times Book Review In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance’s Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man’s harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history’s most heinous human rights abuses. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers’ arms. Kennan came to call the exiles’ experience in Siberia a “perfect hell of misery.” After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.