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The Tsar S Window
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Author : Lucy Hamilton Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Tsar S Window written by Lucy Hamilton Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Saint Petersburg (Russia) categories.
The Tsar S Window
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Author : Lucy Hamilton Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-02
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The Tsar S Window
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language : en
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Release Date : 1881
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The Tsar S Window Classic Reprint
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Author : Lucy Hamilton Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-17
The Tsar S Window Classic Reprint written by Lucy Hamilton Hooper and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with categories.
Excerpt from The Tsar's Window The waiter comes in to know what we will order for dinner. He looks at us as if he wished to say, Poor creatures, how sorry I am for you! After all, it is not your fault that you were not born British subjects. Why did it occur to Grace that she would like to spend a winter in St. Petersburg? Why should she have cared about getting acquainted with our Russian kinsman? Why did Tom make that investment which gave him the money for this trip? Above all, what evil genius whispered to me that it would be pleasant to accompany them? To these questions I can find no answer, and I am going to drown my sorrows in crum pets and tea. Those articles, at least, are good here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Tsar S Window
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Author : Lucy Hamilton Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-11
The Tsar S Window written by Lucy Hamilton Hooper and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-11 with Art categories.
You will love this novel about the main character's adventures with a friend on business in St. Petersburg. Excerpt: The waiter comes in to know what we will order for dinner. He looks at us as if he wished to say, Poor creatures, how sorry I am for you! After all, it is not your fault that you were not born British subjects.
Tsar S Window
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Author : Lucy Hamilton Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
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St Petersburg
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Author : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
language : en
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Release Date : 1996
St Petersburg written by Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ and has been published by Abbeville Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
Before becoming a city, St. Petersburg was a utopian vision in the mind of its founder, Peter the Great. Conceived by him as Russia's "window to the West," it evolved into a remarkably harmonious assemblage of baroque, rococo, neoclassical, and art nouveau buildings that reflect his taste and that of his successors, including Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vision of its founder and namesake. The text, by art historian Dmitri Shvidkovsky, chronicles the history of the city's planning and construction from Peter the Great's time to the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Anyone who has ever visited--or dreamed of visiting--the city of "white nights" will find St. Petersburg irresistible.
Monsieur Sylvestre
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Author : George Sand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Monsieur Sylvestre written by George Sand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
The Last Tsar
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Author : Edvard Radzinsky
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-03-30
The Last Tsar written by Edvard Radzinsky and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-30 with History categories.
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.
The Tsars
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Author : Alexander Ivanov
language : en
Publisher: New Word City
Release Date : 2018-12-15
The Tsars written by Alexander Ivanov and has been published by New Word City this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The tsars of Russia reigned as absolute monarchs long past the time when the authority of other sovereigns had been curtailed. Here, historian Alexander Ivanov reveals their fears and betrayals, privilege and debauchery, conspiracies and rivalries, love and tragedy as they forged Russia into one of the world's greatest empires. No ruler in history has embodied the oppressive domination of these rulers more vividly than Alexander Ivanov's opening subject, Tsar Ivan IV, the first of all the Russian tsars, known to history as Ivan the Terrible. Although a gifted ruler who did much to unite and improve the conditions in his primitive country, Ivan was also a notorious sadist who delighted in torturing and murdering anyone who displeased him. Ivan's death in 1584 ushered in the Time of Troubles, thirty-five years of famine, plague, and war that crippled the nation. A series of rulers attempted to cope with the devastation, beginning with Ivan's successor Boris Godunov. Finally, grasping for stability, Russia's nobles begged young Michael Romanov, the great-nephew of Ivan's beloved wife Anastasia, to take the throne. Michael successfully united the war-torn and ravaged nation and founded a dynasty that would rule for 300 years. The Romanov line produced Russia's most brilliant yet most unconventional sovereign: Peter the Great, a towering figure of a man whose restless, creative mind led him on an inexorable quest to modernize and civilize the still backward nation. The reforms he enacted so enraged nobles and peasants alike that Peter had to quash a series of rebellions to keep his crown. Ruthlessly stifling dissent and massacring rebels, he ultimately cowed the Russian people into submission, achieving a legacy that nearly equaled his ambitions. It was left to a woman - and a foreigner, at that - to lead the nation further out of the darkness. German princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, known to the world as Catherine the Great, absorbed the principles of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and applied them to a country built on the backs of millions of serfs. However ineffective some of her policies, in the end, she made Russia a major player on the European stage. Serfdom was finally abolished in the nineteenth century, but it would be decades before Russian peasants could own land of their own and learn to farm it productively. The boyars and tsars clung to power until the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The sad fate of the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, marked the end of the absolute power that Ivan the Terrible had so exploited. The abuses would continue but under a new and drastically different form of government.