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Book Synopsis A Gentleman in Moscow by : Amor Towles
Download or read book A Gentleman in Moscow written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers Soon to be a Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel 'A wonderful book' - Tana French 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD
Book Synopsis Handbook of Russian Literature by : Victor Terras
Download or read book Handbook of Russian Literature written by Victor Terras and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the careers of Russian authors, scholars, and critics and discusses the history of the Russian treatment of literary genres such as drama, fiction, and essays
Download or read book Tsar written by Ted Bell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in Russia is a man so powerful that no one even knows his name. Yet though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings - and pulling them hard. For suddenly Russia is a far bigger threat than even the most devoted Cold War warriors ever thought possible. With her finger on the switch to the European economy and her sights on the American jugular, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, he has been appointed Tsar, a signal to the world that the old imperial power is back - and plans to have her day. At the same time, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent American family, literally blowing up the small midwestern town in which they lived. Just a taste, according to the new Tsar, of what will happen if America does not step aside in preventing Russia's plans to 'reintegrate' her rogue states. Onto this nightmarish stage steps special agent extraordinaire Alex Hawke, the only man - both the British and Americans agree - who can stop the madness.
Book Synopsis Honeymooning in Russia by : Ruth Kedzie Wood
Download or read book Honeymooning in Russia written by Ruth Kedzie Wood and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar by : Henri Troyat
Download or read book Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar written by Henri Troyat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were running swiftly, the surface stability of the Tsarist regime show no indication of the turmoil ahead. The author, who is perhaps best known for his biography Tolstoy, describes Russian life through the eyes of a fictional young Englishman visiting a prosperous Russian merchant family. All facets of Moscow life are covered, from entertainment and night life to family life and the devotions of the Orthodox. We learn about Russia's factory workers and peasants, its soldiers and lawyers, its priests and its city officials, its Tsar and his entourage: what they do and what they wear, what they think and what they dream. Concluding chapters take our visitor to the famous fair at Nizhny-Novgorod, which was held every year from July 15 to September 10, and on a boat trip down the Volga.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Russia, 1881 by : Dr. John Raffensperger
Download or read book Adventures in Russia, 1881 written by Dr. John Raffensperger and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the second of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1881 while he was a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In this rollicking story of high adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell - who became the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to Russia on a secret forensic mission to save Europe from war. Peopled with Doyle's real-life contemporaries - including Dostoyesky and Rasputin, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humour sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!
Book Synopsis The Emperors and Empresses of Russia by : Donald J. Raleigh
Download or read book The Emperors and Empresses of Russia written by Donald J. Raleigh and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven biographical sketches written by Russian historians are notable as first efforts of the post-1985 period to reassess Imperial Russia's rulers. The work focuses on the human qualities of the emperors and empresses, and emphasizes nonideological scholarly investigation thus rehabilitating Russia's tsars as complex leaders instead of wooden, one dimensional "capitalists." The historical figures portrayed include: Peter I, Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth I, Peter III, Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Knack Bartending Basics by : Cheryl Charming
Download or read book Knack Bartending Basics written by Cheryl Charming and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By breaking down drinks in a visually organized format, Knack Bartending Basics allows the reader to instantly master more than 400 cocktails.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Throne (Catharine II. of Russia) by : Kazimierz Waliszewski
Download or read book The Story of a Throne (Catharine II. of Russia) written by Kazimierz Waliszewski and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Visualizing Russia by : Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
Download or read book Visualizing Russia written by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic search for a national past was a European preoccupation in the first half of the nineteenth century. In Russia, this process led to the formation of the Russian style that has to today so captivated the world's imagination. While the manifestations of this style are easily recognizable in gleaming gilt, vibrant colors, onion domes, peasant costume, and tsarist regalia, hardly anyone has realized the pioneering and defining role that Fedor Solntsev (1801-1892) played in the development of a Russian national aesthetic. This book rescues Solntsev from obscurity and celebrates his major contributions to the arts, archaeology, architecture, ethnography, icon painting, restoration work, and Russian nationalist ideology as well as place his work in a general European context. Contributors include: Marc Raeff, Wendy Salmond, Richard Wortman, Anne Odom, Irina Bogatskaia, Marina Evtushenko, Olenka Pevny, Irina Reyfman, Nathaniel Knight, Lauren M. O'Connell, and J. Robert Wright.
Book Synopsis The Patriarch and the Tsar ... by : William Palmer
Download or read book The Patriarch and the Tsar ... written by William Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bentham Brothers and Russia by : Roger Bartlett
Download or read book The Bentham Brothers and Russia written by Roger Bartlett and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jurist and philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, and his lesser-known brother, Samuel, equally talented but as a naval architect, engineer and inventor, had a long love affair with Russia. Jeremy hoped to assist Empress Catherine II with her legislative projects. Samuel went to St Petersburg to seek his fortune in 1780 and came back with the rank of Brigadier-General and the idea, famously publicised by Jeremy, of the Inspection-House or Panopticon. The Bentham Brothers and Russia chronicles the brothers’ later involvement with the Russian Empire, when Jeremy focused his legislative hopes on Catherine’s grandson Emperor Alexander I (ruled 1801-25) and Samuel found a unique opportunity in 1806 to build a Panopticon in St Petersburg – the only panoptical building ever built by the Benthams themselves. Setting the Benthams’ projects within an in-depth portrayal of the Russian context, Roger Bartlett illuminates an important facet of their later careers and offers insight into their world view and way of thought. He also contributes towards the history of legal codification in Russia, which reached a significant peak in 1830, and towards the demythologising of the Panopticon, made notorious by Michel Foucault: the St Petersburg building, still relatively unknown, is described here in detail on the basis of archival sources. The Benthams’ interactions with Russia under Alexander I constituted a remarkable episode in Anglo-Russian relations; this book fills a significant gap in their history.
Book Synopsis The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 by : Andreas Schönle
Download or read book The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 written by Andreas Schönle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview, complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their attitude to state service, the changing patterns of their family life, their emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time. The creation of a Europeanized elite in Russia was a state-initiated project that aimed to overcome the presumed "backwardness" of the country. The evolution of this social group in its relations to political authority provides insight into the fraught identity of a country developing on the geopolitical periphery of Europe. In contrast to postcolonial studies that explore the imposition of political, social, and cultural structures on colonized societies, this multidisciplinary volume explores the patterns of behavior and emotion that emerge from the processes of self-Europeanization. The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825, will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in Russian history and culture, particularly in light of current political debates about globalization and widening social inequality in Europe.
Download or read book Global Gifts written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.
Book Synopsis History of Russia by : Robert Gossip
Download or read book History of Russia written by Robert Gossip and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God, Tsar, and People by : Daniel B. Rowland
Download or read book God, Tsar, and People written by Daniel B. Rowland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, Tsar, and People brings together in one volume essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence—texts, icons, architecture, and ritual—to reveal how early modern Russians (1450–1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world. This volume presents a more nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power than is typically available. The state was expanding at a dizzying rate, and atop Russia's traditional political structure sat a ruler who supposedly reflected God's will. The problem facing Russians was that actual rulers seldom—or never—exhibited the required perfection. Daniel Rowland argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, Rowland is also questioning the notion that Russia has always been, and always viewed itself as, an authoritarian country. God, Tsar, and People explores how the Russian state in this period kept its vast lands and diverse subjects united in a common view of a Christian polity, defending its long frontier against powerful enemies from the East and from the West.
