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Book Synopsis The Moor of St Petersburg by : Frances Somers Cocks
Download or read book The Moor of St Petersburg written by Frances Somers Cocks and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the character of a man who rose from slavery to become a general, a wealthy landowner, a distinguished military engineer, an intellectual and bibliophile, and who triumphed over his wife's unfaithfulness. It explains the mythical status within Russia of his Great Grandson Alexander Pushkin, and how his life was destroyed by jealousy.
Download or read book Gannibal written by Hugh Barnes and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly amazing 18th century life restored to history - Tsar's godson and nobleman, Russian Bluebeard, engineer of genius - who began life in an African village. When Major-General Gannibal died in 1781 in his eighties, he could look back on a long and successful life. He was the godson of Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth had given him nobility, thousands of acres, villages of serfs. His French education and a natural gift for mathematics had led him to fame as a fireworks expert and the architect of a string of fortifications from the Arctic Circle to China. As a husband he was a provincial Bluebeard, but his descendants would include the great poet Pushkin and a bevy of British aristocrats. Yet Abram Petrovich Gannibal had been born in very different circumstances. He was a black African, perhaps from Ethiopia, perhaps from modern Chad, sold as a child into slavery. In a brilliant biography Hugh Barnes who has tracked Gannibal's footsteps across three continents restores an extraordinary life to history.
Book Synopsis A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia by : Leitch Ritchie
Download or read book A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia written by Leitch Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Black Nights in St. Petersburg by : Serge Gorneff
Download or read book The Black Nights in St. Petersburg written by Serge Gorneff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jonathan Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of Russia’s unique glory was also created here: its literature, music, dance, and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets.It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St. Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this paradoxical and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when its fate hangs in the balance once more.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to St Petersburg by : Kyril FitzLyon
Download or read book The Companion Guide to St Petersburg written by Kyril FitzLyon and published by Companion Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a guide to the hidden city, reconstructed, imagined and remembered, as well as to St Petersburg today, this book is highly recommended. It will take you to parts of the city and corners of buildings that other guides do not reach and reveal stories that others do not tell.
Book Synopsis The Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg by : N. T. Ashimbaeva
Download or read book The Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg written by N. T. Ashimbaeva and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. Petersburg; Its People; Their Character and Institutions by : Eduard Jerrmann
Download or read book St. Petersburg; Its People; Their Character and Institutions written by Eduard Jerrmann and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... possible. The count was in despair; but the case was one for which there was no remedy. At last he sent his gamekeeper for firearms. The man levelled his gun at the noble dog, but the count could not bear to behold his favourite fall by a stranger's hand. He tremblingly grasped the weapon, and took aim; but, although close to his mark, he could not see for the tears that filled his eyes, and he missed. A shot from the gamekeeper took sure effect. The dog had no sooner fallen than the count pressed his body to his breast as passionately as though it had been that of some dear and much-lamented friend. I could not longer bear to contemplate this painful scene, and drove on. Before I had turned a corner near at hand, a third shot was fired; turning quickly round I saw the valuable horse rear high in the air, and then fall lifeless to the earth. The count threw his rifle on the beast's carcase and rushed into the house. CHAPTER XXXIX. A WINTER MORNING IN THE COUNTRY. IT was a splendid winter's morning. Even before rising from his bed, the Russian is at once informed of such a day by a glance at the thermometer, which hangs between his double windows, and stands at sixteen or eighteen degrees below zero. With this dry cold the wind is always very light, and it falls in proportion as the quicksilver sinks; until, at twenty degrees below zero, there is usually a dead calm. If, in addition to this, there be a gleam of sunshine, the fine winter day is complete, and leaves nothing to be desired. On such a day was it that we started on an expedition "to the Colony." Nine o'clock struck as the sledges drove up to the door. I was informed of their arrival, or should otherwise not have been aware of it, for I could not see them from my apartment on...
Book Synopsis The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin by : Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
Download or read book The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin written by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects all the stories of the great Russian author.
Download or read book St Petersburg written by Jonathan Miles and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world. St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations – St Petersburg; Petrograd; Leningrad and, once again, St Petersburg – has always been a place of perpetual contradiction. It was a window on to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of the glory of Russia was created here: its literature, music, dance and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets. It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this absurd and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when – once more – its fate hangs in the balance. This is an epic tale of murder, massacre and madness played out against squalor and splendour. It is an unforgettable portrait of a city and its people.
Book Synopsis 77 Amazing Facts About the Moors with Complete Proof by : Kudjo Adwo El
Download or read book 77 Amazing Facts About the Moors with Complete Proof written by Kudjo Adwo El and published by Califa Media Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 pages of little known facts about the Moors and their impact on civilizations the world over. Collaboration between Canaanland and the Moorish Califa to continue to Great Work of Master Teacher J.A. Rogers.
Book Synopsis A Visit to St. Petersburg, in the Winter of 1829-30 by : Thomas Raikes
Download or read book A Visit to St. Petersburg, in the Winter of 1829-30 written by Thomas Raikes and published by London, Richard Bentley. This book was released on 1838 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Novels, Tales, Journeys by : Alexander Pushkin
Download or read book Novels, Tales, Journeys written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.
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Download or read book Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow written by and published by Russian Library. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander Radishchev's account of a fictional journey blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society.
Download or read book Gannibal written by Hugh Barnes and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly amazing 18th century life restored to history - Tsar's godson and nobleman, Russian Bluebeard, engineer of genius - who began life in an African village. When Major-General Gannibal died in 1781 in his eighties, he could look back on a long and successful life. He was the godson of Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth had given him nobility, thousands of acres, villages of serfs. His French education and a natural gift for mathematics had led him to fame as a fireworks expert and the architect of a string of fortifications from the Arctic Circle to China. As a husband he was a provincial Bluebeard, but his descendants would include the great poet Pushkin and a bevy of British aristocrats. Yet Abram Petrovich Gannibal had been born in very different circumstances. He was a black African, perhaps from Ethiopia, perhaps from modern Chad, sold as a child into slavery. In a brilliant biography Hugh Barnes who has tracked Gannibal's footsteps across three continents restores an extraordinary life to history.
Book Synopsis A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia (Classic Reprint) by : Leitch Ritchie
Download or read book A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia (Classic Reprint) written by Leitch Ritchie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow Through Courland and Livonia The desert became still more desolate, and the wind began to moan with that strange unearthly sound which it has in lonely places, over tracts of snow or sand. To the left, the wilderness was bound in by the distant Baltic as with a girdle, only distinguishable from the sky, with which it mingled, by its deeper blue. Every where else fields of sand and morass extended to the verge of the horizon. This apparently was a neutral ground between the two countries and it was with no small degree of curiosity that I awaited my introduction into Russia. 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.
Book Synopsis The White Nights of St Petersburg by : Geoffrey Trease
Download or read book The White Nights of St Petersburg written by Geoffrey Trease and published by Pan. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
