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Angel of the Tsar

Author : Marlene Christian
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440163456
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Angel of the Tsar written by Marlene Christian and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is Russian folklore of a sacred stone known as The Angel of the Tsar. Worn for centuries by Russia's nobility, it was considered lost forever after the murder of the Romanovs - until April 1998 when Canadian journalist Angelique Laird receives a mysterious special delivery package containing an antique Russian diary and a pendant encasing a luminous gemstone. Angelique has no time to investigate as she must rush off to an assignment in France, unaware that it will bring her together again with the man who was once the great love of her life.This reunion and possession of the gemstone catapults Angelique into a tapestry of Royal intrigue which unveils her connection to the Romanovs - and her destiny. The decisions Angelique must now face will not only seal the fate of her beloved but that of the entire world. An inspirational novel of hope and healing, Angel of the Tsar weaves a tapestry of messages for humanity...if we are willing to learn from our past. This book is at once Empowering, Inspiring and Enlightening. A mystery within a myth inside of a love story, Angel of the Tsar speaks to the feminine spirit within us all. Elegantly written and impossible to put down.

Angel on the Square

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061975788
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Angel on the Square written by Gloria Whelan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Homeless Bird comes “an absorbing saga”* about a young heroine coming of age in the tumultuous years leading up to the Russian revolution. Gripping, accessible historical fiction that's perfect for schools and classrooms, as well as for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein. In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place. The daughter of a lady in waiting to the Empress, Katya spends all her time with the Grand Duchesses, and the royal family feels like her own. But outside the palace, a terrible war is sweeping through Europe, and Russia is beginning to crumble under the weight of a growing revolution. Now, as Katya’s once-certain future begins to dissolve, she must seek to understand what is happening to her beloved country and, for the first time in her life, take charge of her own destiny. With her trademark lyricism, spare prose, and strong young heroine, award-winning author Gloria Whelan has again taken a chapter from history and transformed it into compelling historical fiction. *Kirkus

Angel on the Square

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9780439405478
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Angel on the Square written by Gloria Whelan and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

Angel of Vengeance

Author : Ana Siljak
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429960841
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Angel of Vengeance written by Ana Siljak and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial for murder later that year became Russia's "trial of the century," closely followed by people all across Europe and America. On the day of the trial, huge crowds packed the courtroom. The cream of Russian society, attired in the finery of the day, arrived to witness the theatrical testimony and deliberations in the case of the young angel of vengeance. After the trial, Vera became a celebrated martyr for all social classes in Russia and became the public face of a burgeoning revolutionary fervor. Dostoyevsky (who attended the trial), Turgenev, Engels, and even Oscar Wilde all wrote about her extraordinary case. Her astonishing acquittal was celebrated across Europe, crowds filled the streets and the decision marked the changing face of Russia. After fleeing to Switzerland, Vera Zasulich became Russia's most famous "terroristka," inspiring a whole generation of Russian and European revolutionaries to embrace violence and martyrdom. Her influence led to a series of acts that collectively became part of "the age of assassinations." In the now-forgotten story of Russia's most notorious terrorist, Ana Siljak captures Vera's extraordinary life story--from privileged child of nobility to revolutionary conspirator, from assassin to martyr to socialist icon and saint-- while colorfully evoking the drama of one of the world's most closely watched trials and a Russia where political celebrities held sway.

Tsar Wars Episode One

Author : George Griffith
Publisher : Hellograph Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781930658165
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Tsar Wars Episode One written by George Griffith and published by Hellograph Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Evil Emperor. A Titanic Struggle. Daring Rescues. Flying Ships. Mind Control. A Small Band Of Rebels Led By A Beautiful Woman. When young inventor Richard Arnold cracks the problem of heavier than air flight in 1903, his discovery becomes the key tool of The Brotherhood Of Freedom, a worldwide rebellion against society, focused against the cruelties of the Russian Tsar. Arnold soon falls under the spell of Natasha, known within The Brotherhood as The Angel Of The Revolution, and uses his airshipsin daring rescues, flights of exploration, and key battles in the World War between the Anglo-Teutonic Alliance (Britain, Austria, and Germany) and the Fraco-SlavonicLeague (France, Russia, and Italy). Originally published serially in Pearson's Magazine in 1893, Tower published the novel form in 1894 with the title The Angel Of The Revolution: A Tale Of The Coming Terror. This edition has reset the text, but retained every word and illustration from the Tower editions.

The Angel of the Revolution

Author : George Griffith
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612108245
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Angel of the Revolution written by George Griffith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Brotherhood of Freedom’ is out to take over the world using airship warfare. The group is led by a brilliant Russian Jew and his daughter, the 'angel' Natasha. They manage to establish a 'pax aeronautica' over the earth after a young inventor masters the technology of flight in 1903, and the war progresses to the heart of Russia and against the Russian Czar.

For Prophet and Tsar

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262859
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book For Prophet and Tsar written by Robert D. Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over five hundred years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia’s approach toward Islam once yielded stability. In stark contrast to the popular “clash of civilizations” theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great inaugurated a policy of religious toleration that made Islam an essential pillar of Orthodox Russia. For ensuing generations, tsars and their police forces supported official Muslim authorities willing to submit to imperial directions in exchange for defense against brands of Islam they deemed heretical and destabilizing. As a result, Russian officials assumed the powerful but often awkward role of arbitrator in disputes between Muslims. And just as the state became a presence in the local mosque, Muslims became inextricably integrated into the empire and shaped tsarist will in Muslim communities stretching from the Volga River to Central Asia. For Prophet and Tsar draws on police and court records, and Muslim petitions, denunciations, and clerical writings—not accessible prior to 1991—to unearth the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.

An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar

Author : Christine Benagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982277010
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar written by Christine Benagh and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle: The Spiritual Journey of Charles Sydney Gibbes Charles Sydney Gibbes travels abroad in a crisis of faith, and his world is changed forever when he becomes a tutor to the children of the Russian royal family. Gibbes eventually returns to Great Britain, there dedicating his life as an Orthodox priest to the memory of the Imperial Family and the faith he discovered in their distant homeland.

The Last Tsar

Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307754626
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Last Tsar written by Edvard Radzinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Court of the Last Tsar

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470324996
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Court of the Last Tsar written by Greg King and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the most magnificent court in Europe—a world of fairy-tale opulence, ornate architecture, sophisticated fashion, extravagant luxury, and immense power. In the last Russian imperial court, a potent underlying mythology drove its participants to enact the pageantry of medieval, Orthodox Russia—infused with the sensibilities of Versailles—against a backdrop of fading Edwardian splendor, providing a spectacle of archaic ceremonies carefully orchestrated as a lavish stage upon which Nicholas II played out his tumultuous reign. While a massive body of literature has been devoted to the last of the Romanovs, The Court of the Last Tsar is the first book to examine the people, mysteries, traditions, scandals, rivalries, rituals, and riches that were part of everyday life in the last two decades of the Romanov dynasty. It is as difficult for the twenty-first-century mind to imagine the pomp and splendor that accompanied the tsar and his family everywhere they went as it was for the simple Russian peasant toiling a thousand miles from St. Petersburg. This stunningly illustrated volume removes the mystery with more than a hundred black-and-white photos; floor plans of the tsar’s Winter Palace, the Alexander Palace, and the Grand Kremlin Palace; a map of St. Petersburg; and plans of the imperial parks at Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. This eye-popping tour of hedonistic imperial Russia on the edge of oblivion draws on hundreds of previously unpublished primary sources, including memoirs, personal letters, diary entries, and official documents collected during author Greg King’s fifteen years of research in Russia and elsewhere in Europe. It invites you to experience dozens of extravagant ceremonies and entertainments attended only by members of the court; exposes the numerous sexual intrigues of the imperial family, including rape, incest, and brazen affairs; and introduces many of the more than fifteen thousand individuals who made the imperial court a society unto itself. Chief among these, of course, was Tsar Nicholas II. He ruled an empire that stretched over one-sixth of the earth’s land surface but lacked, according to one courtier, both his father’s inspiring presence and his mother’s vibrant charm. His wife, Alexandra, was a strong and passionate woman who “never developed the social skills necessary to her rank.” Their wedding and the tsar’s coronation are two of the most spectacular ceremonies described in this lavish volume. Vetted with care by the last remaining members of the Russian imperial court, The Court of the Last Tsar brings the people, places, and events of this doomed but unforgettable wonderland to vivid and sparkling life.

Alix and Nicky

Author : Virginia Rounding
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429940905
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Alix and Nicky written by Virginia Rounding and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them. There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his wife the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. On one hand, they are venerated as saints, innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins, and on the other they are impugned as the unwitting harbingers of revolution and imperial collapse, blamed for all the ills that befell the Russian people in the 20th century. Theirs was also a tragic love story; for whatever else can be said of them, there can be no doubt that Alix and Nicky adored one another. Soon after their engagement, Alix wrote in her fiancé's diary: "Ever true and ever loving, faithful, pure and strong as death"—words which met their fulfillment twenty-four years later in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg. Through the letters and diaries written by the couple and by those around them, Virginia Rounding presents an intimate, penetrating, and fresh portrayal of these two complex figures and of their passion—their love and their suffering. She explores the nature and possible causes of the Empress's ill health, and examines in depth the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and their ‘favourite,' Ania Vyrubova, protégée of the infamous Rasputin, extracting the meaning from words left unsaid, from hints and innuendoes.. The story of Alix and Nicky, of their four daughters known collectively as ‘OTMA' and of their hemophiliac little boy Alexei, is endlessly fascinating, and Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their human dimensions and expertly leading the reader into their vanished world.

The Kitchen Boy

Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142003816
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Kitchen Boy written by Robert Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the eyes of their young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs’ brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family. Does he hold the key to the many questions surrounding the family’s murder? Historically vivid and compelling, The Kitchen Boy is also a touching portrait of a loving family that was in many ways similar, yet so different, from any other. "Ingenious...Keeps readers guessing through the final pages." —USA Today

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution

Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972066
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution written by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Prelude to revolution -- Rising crime before the October revolution -- Why did the crime rate shoot up? -- Militias rise and fall -- An epidemic of mob justice -- Crime after the Bolshevik takeover -- The Bolsheviks and the militia -- Conclusion

Tsars and Cossacks

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Tsars and Cossacks written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. In this groundbreaking study, Serhii Plokhy examines the political and religious culture of Ukrainian Cossackdom, as reflected in the Cossack-era paintings, icons, and woodcuts.

The Tsar of Love and Techno

Author : Anthony Marra
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0770436447
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Tsar of Love and Techno written by Anthony Marra and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art. This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.

The Angel of History

Author : Carolyn Forché
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062029061
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Angel of History written by Carolyn Forché and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, and link the past with the future.

"Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics

Author : Victor Zhivov
Publisher : Ars Rossica
ISBN 13 : 9781618118042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book "Tsar and God" and Other Essays in Russian Cultural Semiotics written by Victor Zhivov and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.