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Download or read book The Czar's Madman written by Jaan Kross and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of "protection:" a man would need to be insane, after all, to have taken a Czar at his word when asked for a candid appraisal of the state's infirmities. From the year of his release from prison and return to his wife Eeva, a woman of peasant stock to whom, with her brother Jakob, he has given a solid education, the Baron's life is recorded in a secret journal by this same Jakob, a shrewd and observant house-guest. Reconstructing the events leading up to the Baron's incarceration in 1818 and subsequent to his release in 1827, Jakob little by little brings to light mysteries surrounding the "Czar's madman." Was his madness genuine? What was the secret understanding between him and his boon companion Czar Alexander I, who committed him to prison? In The Czar's Madman, Jaan Kross weaves together the elements of intrigue surrounding those historical characters who survived in post-Napoleonic Russia, and by a skillful shifting of chronology and viewpoints, creates a superbly rich and moving narrative.
Book Synopsis The History of the Life and Reign of the Czar Peter the Great by : John Bancks
Download or read book The History of the Life and Reign of the Czar Peter the Great written by John Bancks and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays by : Katherine Pickering Antonova
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays written by Katherine Pickering Antonova and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a step-by-step guide to the typical assignments of any undergraduate or master's-level history program in North America. Effective writing is a process of discovery, achieved through the continual act of making choices--what to include or exclude, how to order elements, and which style to choose--each according to the author's goals and the intended audience. The book integrates reading and specialized vocabulary with writing and revision and addresses the evolving nature of digital media while teaching the terms and logic of traditional sources and the reasons for citation as well as the styles. This approach to writing not only helps students produce an effective final product and build from writing simple, short essays to completing a full research thesis, it also teaches students why and how an essay is effective, empowering them to approach new writing challenges with the freedom to find their own voice.
Book Synopsis Russia; its plans of conquest revealed. A series of papers ... By a Rusinian from the Banks of the Boh by : Russia
Download or read book Russia; its plans of conquest revealed. A series of papers ... By a Rusinian from the Banks of the Boh written by Russia and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature by : Leena Kirstinä
Download or read book Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature written by Leena Kirstinä and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium. Its objective is to study this interesting era of literary history in Finland and to sketch some possible directions for future development by identifying literary turning points which have already occurred. The nine articles found in the anthology are written by some of the most prominent literary scholars in Finland. These distinguished authors examine such varied topics as postmodern allegories, feminism, historiography, autobiographic writing, modern subjects in postmodern conditions, metalyrical poetry, realistic involvement in the novel, successful children's literature, and the intertextuality of Sofi Oksanen's famous novel Purge.
Book Synopsis A Mother of Czars by : Mrs. Colquhoun Grant
Download or read book A Mother of Czars written by Mrs. Colquhoun Grant and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sister Jane written by Irmgarde Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her life, Jane believes she is small-town ordinary. . . until she isn't. Some people brand her a witch because of the cat while others believe she has a demon. Her family thinks she's ready for the nursing home, and the down-and-out reporter assumes she's a fake. But nobody, including Jane, can figure out how she does it: heal the sick. All the sick. All the time. Is it a gift of God? The Church is divided. Then, everything erupts when the foreigners arrive along with the government people and the scientists. Will Jane become a pawn or save herself? Sister Jane is a story that combines realism, considerations of the supernatural, and the conflicts and conundrums that are set loose by Jane's ability to heal. Author Irmgarde Brown creates characters that hold the reader's interest because they evoke an emotional response that registers as real. This is fiction that contains depth and serious questions. However, answers are left open to interpretation, and faith is never presented as a "one size fits all" experience of the human spirit. The plot begins on a strong note, and continues to build to an ending that is both unexpected and intriguing.
Book Synopsis Cities of the World by : Edwin Hodder
Download or read book Cities of the World written by Edwin Hodder and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis World History in the Making by : Albert Edward McKinley
Download or read book World History in the Making written by Albert Edward McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Night, White Snow by : Harison E. Salisbury
Download or read book Black Night, White Snow written by Harison E. Salisbury and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1981-08-21 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline.
Book Synopsis The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars by : Virginia Cowles
Download or read book The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars written by Virginia Cowles and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1969 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotsmen in the Service of the Czars by : Ian G. Anderson
Download or read book Scotsmen in the Service of the Czars written by Ian G. Anderson and published by Pentland Press (UK). This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Czar's Spy by : William Le Queux
Download or read book The Czar's Spy written by William Le Queux and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Gregg is an Englishman serving temporarily as Consul in Italy. He gets invited on a luxurious yacht by a visiting countryman. On board, Gordon finds the photo of a lovely young woman, torn in pieces. Upon his return to shore he discovers that the consulate's safe is robbed, and yacht has sat sail in the meanwhile. Obsessed with the photograph of a young woman who holds a deadly secret Gordon stars a quest that will lead him into many adventures and misadventures all across Europe. William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French writer who mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy "The Great War in England in 1897" and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910."
Download or read book Temple Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Life of Peter I, Emperor of Russia, Containing a Description of Russia by :
Download or read book The History of the Life of Peter I, Emperor of Russia, Containing a Description of Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The End and the Beginning by : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis Parallax, the Time Conspiracy and the Heretic by : E.R. Scofield
Download or read book Parallax, the Time Conspiracy and the Heretic written by E.R. Scofield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler wants to rule the future by changing the past. In the twenty first century a man wants to cure disease, but inadvertently discovers a portal to another world. A group of people want to escape the draconian rule of the modern Nazi empire. The Thousand Year Reich does not allow escape. There will be......trouble.
