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The Tsarina's Legacy

Author : Jennifer Laam
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466877340
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Legacy written by Jennifer Laam and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then...Grigory "Grisha" Potemkin has had a successful long association with the powerful Empress Catherine of Russia. But Catherine and Grisha are older now and face new threats, both from powers outside of Russia and from those close to them. Haunted by the horrors of his campaign against the Muslim Turks, Grisha hopes to construct a mosque in the heart of the empire. Unfortunately, Catherine's much younger new lover, the ambitious Platon Zubov, stands in his way. Grisha determines that to preserve Catherine's legacy he must save her from Zubov's dangerous influence and win back her heart. Now...When she learns she is the lost heiress to the Romanov throne, Veronica Herrera's life turns upside down. Dmitry Potemkin, one of Grisha's descendants, invites Veronica to Russia to accept a ceremonial position as Russia's new tsarina. Seeking purpose, Veronica agrees to act as an advocate to free a Russian artist sentenced to prison for displaying paintings critical of the church and government. Veronica is both celebrated and chastised. As her political role comes under fire, Veronica is forced to decide between the glamorous perks of European royalty and staying true to herself. In Jennifer Laam's The Tsarina's Legacy, unexpected connections between Grisha and Veronica are revealed as they struggle to make peace with the ghosts of their past and help secure a better future for themselves and the country they both love.

The Tsarina's Daughter

Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429960876
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Daughter written by Carolly Erickson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be—the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. And so begins the latest entrancing historical entertainment by Carolly Erickson. At its center is young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in pre-Revolutionary Russia, from the magnificence of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to the family's private enclave outside the capital. Tania is one of four daughters, and the birth of her younger brother Alexei is both a blessing and a curse. When he is diagnosed with hemophilia and the key to his survival lies in the mysterious power of the illiterate monk Rasputin, it is merely an omen of much worse things to come. Soon war breaks out and revolution sweeps the family from power and into claustrophobic imprisonment in Siberia. Into Tania's world comes a young soldier whose life she helps to save and who becomes her partner in daring plans to rescue the imperial family from certain death.

Alexandra

Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 142990402X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Alexandra written by Carolly Erickson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality. The lives of the Romanovs were full of color and drama, but the personal life of Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empresses' singular psychology are revealed: her childhood bereavement, her long struggle to attain her romantic goal of marriage to Nicholas, the anguish of her pathological shyness, her struggles with her in-laws, her false pregnancy, her increasing eccentricities and loss of self as she became more preoccupied with matters of faith, and her increasing dependence on a series of occult mentors, the most notorious of whom was Rasputin. With meticulous care, long practiced skill, and generous imagination, Erickson crafts a character who lives and breathes.

The Romanov Legacy

Author : Marilyn Baron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509235933
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Romanov Legacy written by Marilyn Baron and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melody, a young single mother, discovers she's descended from the last Tsar, Nicholas II. She becomes the best hope of a secret global society, Guardians of the Romanov Legacy, dedicated to restoring a Romanov to the throne of a New Russia. A diary and an heirloom necklace inherited from her murdered grandmother hold the key to her identity and to the location of the Tsar's lost shipment of gold. She must accept the sacrifices her birth demands and trust the machinations of the estranged father of her child. To refuse means turning her back on her heritage, her daughter's legacy, and the long line of her family's women who were keepers of the secret. Will her longing for true love have world-changing consequences?

The Tsarina's Daughter

Author : Ellen Alpsten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781526608598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Daughter written by Ellen Alpsten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the highly acclaimed historical fiction series set within the glittering and ruthless House of Romanov. 'Gripping ... Who would not want to spend more time in the mad, bad world of the Romanovs?' The Times 'A delicious hotbed of greed, lust and envy' Heat -----------When they took everything from her, they didn't count on her fighting to get it back...Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world's loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire. Insulated by luxury and as a woman free from the burden of statecraft, Elizabeth is seemingly born to pursue her passions.However, a dark prophecy predicts her fate as inexorably twined with Russia. When her mother dies, Russia is torn, masks fall, and friends become foes. Elizabeth's idyllic world is upended. By her twenties she is penniless and powerless, living under constant threat. As times change like quicksand, an all-consuming passion emboldens Elizabeth: she must decide whether to take up her role as Russia's ruler, and what she's willing to do for her country - and for love. -----------Praise for Tsarina 'It makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme' Daisy Goodwin 'A vivid page-turner of a debut' The Times 'Tsarina should come with a health warning - once you start reading, it's impossible to stop' Hannah Rothschild

The Romanov Legacy: A Novel

Author : Marilyn Baron
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509235949
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Romanov Legacy: A Novel written by Marilyn Baron and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melody, a young single mother, discovers she's descended from the last Tsar, Nicholas II. She becomes the best hope of a secret global society, Guardians of the Romanov Legacy, dedicated to restoring a Romanov to the throne of a New Russia. A diary and an heirloom necklace inherited from her murdered grandmother hold the key to her identity and to the location of the Tsar's lost shipment of gold. She must accept the sacrifices her birth demands and trust the machinations of the estranged father of her child. To refuse means turning her back on her heritage, her daughter's legacy, and the long line of her family's women who were keepers of the secret. Will her longing for true love have world-changing consequences?

The Secret Daughter of the Tsar

Author : Jennifer Laam
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125002868X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Daughter of the Tsar written by Jennifer Laam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica is an aspiring historian living in present-day Los Angeles when she meets a mysterious man who may be heir to the Russian throne. As she sets about investigating the legitimacy of his claim through a winding path of romance and deception, the ghosts of her own past begin to haunt her. Lena, a servant in the imperial Russian court of 1902, is approached by the desperate Empress Alexandra. After conceiving four daughters, the Empress is determined to sire a son and believes Lena can help her. Charlotte, a former ballerina living in World War II occupied Paris, receives a surprise visit from a German officer. Determined to protect her son from the Nazis, Charlotte escapes the city, but not before learning that the officer's interest in her stems from his longstanding obsession with the fate of the Russian monarchy.

The Romanovs

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307266524
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Romanovs written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries."--NoveList.

The Tsarina's Lost Treasure

Author : Mara Vorhees
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135570
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Lost Treasure written by Mara Vorhees and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great. On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe’s most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures was The Nursery, an oak-paneled triptych by Leiden fine painter Gerrit Dou, Rembrandt’s most brilliant student and Holland’s first international superstar artist. Dou’s triptych was long the most beloved and most coveted painting of the Dutch Golden Age, and its loss in the shipwreck was mourned throughout the art world. Vrouw Maria, meanwhile, became a maritime legend, confounding would-be salvagers for more than two hundred years. In July 1999, a daring Finnish wreck hunter found Vrouw Maria, upright on the sea floor and perfectly preserved. The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure masterfully recounts the fascinating tale of Vrouw Maria—her loss and discovery—weaving together the rise and fall of the artist whose priceless masterpiece was the jewel of the wreckage. Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees bring to vivid life the personalities that drove (and are still driving) this compelling tale, evoking Robert Massie’s depiction of Russian high politics and culture, Simon Schama’s insights into Dutch Golden Age art and art history, Gary Kinder’s spirit of, danger and adventure on the beguiling Archipelago Sea.

The Kremlin's Legacy: Tracing Russia's Historical Path

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kremlin's Legacy: Tracing Russia's Historical Path written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2023-08-06 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the captivating history of Russia with "The Kremlin's Legacy: Tracing Russia's Historical Path." Brought to you by the ChatStick Team, this detailed account sweeps from the formation of Kievan Rus' to the rise of Putin's Russia, painting a vivid picture of a nation's tumultuous journey. Uncover the trials and triumphs of Tsars and revolutionaries; delve into the chilling depths of the Cold War, and explore the complexities of Russia's post-Soviet transformation. This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive understanding of Russia's past and present, revealing the indelible influence of the world's largest nation on global politics and culture. For history enthusiasts, students, or anyone seeking to understand Russia beyond the headlines, "The Kremlin's Legacy" is an essential read. Embark on this journey and unravel the enigma of Russia.

Avenged

Author : Lynn Carthage
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1617736317
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Avenged written by Lynn Carthage and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deliciously creepy, atmospheric.” —Janet Butler Taylor, author of Into the Dim Long ago I was a servant girl at the great manor house in the quiet English villageof Grenshire. My mistress, Madame Arnaud, proved cruel, and many died at her hands.To stop her, I tried to kill her. I failed. And I lost everything. But that was then. Now, Phoebe Irving's family has moved into the Arnaud Manor.Phoebe, her friend Miles, and I crossed paths and discovered a powerful connection.Together we might be strong enough to untangle an ancient prophecy hanging over thistroubled place where old, deep magic mingles with greed and revenge. We might save Phoebe's baby sister and other innocents. We might even save ourselves. Praise for Haunted “A vampiric ancestor, a selection of ghosts, an historic family estate, an unexpected twist...recommended.” —VOYA “Remarkable...a twist you'll never see coming." —Michelle Gagnon, bestselling author of Don’t Look Now “Carthage does a wonderful job of bringing her characters to life.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars “Spooky and fun...If you like American Horror Story, you will love Haunted.” —Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die

Lenin's Legacy

Author : Robert Wesson
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817969233
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Lenin's Legacy written by Robert Wesson and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1978-03-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise monograph traces Russian Marxism from its beginnings to mid-1977, shows how and why the party achieved power, how it has strengthened its position, and how it has undertaken to remold the country and to solve its internal problems. Wesson's study is the only up-to-date party history currently available. The book opens with background material on Russian discontent and endeavors to analyze the fundamental nature of Communist Party rule, taking into account new perspectives in Lenin's revolution, the Stalinist period, and the Khrushchev years, as well as the latest period not covered in earlier accounts. It treats the rise of Lenin, the struggle for power after Lenin and after Stalin, and the consolidation of Brezhnev's authority. As the most recent history of communism in the Soviet Union, it has great topical interest and is clearly written for the benefit of the student and general reader as well as the professional.

The Lost Season of Love and Snow

Author : Jennifer Laam
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250121892
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Season of Love and Snow written by Jennifer Laam and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A captivating tale in which Natalya Pushkin is vividly imagined. [A] sensitive and skillfully written novel... sure to enchant." - Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home The unforgettable story of Alexander Pushkin’s beautiful wife, Natalya, a woman much admired at Court, and how she became reviled as the villain of St. Petersburg. At the beguiling age of sixteen, Natalya Goncharova is stunningly beautiful and intellectually curious. At her first public ball during the Christmas of 1828, she attracts the romantic attention of Russia’s most lauded rebel poet: Alexander Pushkin. Finding herself deeply attracted to Alexander’s intensity and joie de vivre, Natalya is swept up in a courtship and then a marriage full of passion but also destructive jealousies. When vicious court gossip leads Alexander to defend his honor as well as Natalya’s in a duel, he tragically succumbs to his injuries. Natalya finds herself reviled for her perceived role in his death. In her striking new novel, The Lost Season of Love and Snow, Jennifer Laam helps bring Natalya’s side of the story to life with vivid imagination—the compelling tale of her inner struggle to create a fulfilling life despite the dangerous intrigues of a glamorous imperial Court and that of her greatest love.

Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215915
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy written by Gregory Maertz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the affinity between the religious logic of Sir Thomas Browne and Søren Kierkegaard; Tolstoy’s enduring attraction to Schopenhauer’s thought; Rilke’s debts to the sculptor Rodin; the identification of an early novel by William Godwin as the chief precursor text to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and the corresponding literary projects of Osip Mandelstam, Rilke, and David Jones. In Part Two the essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America: a reconsideration of the life of William Godwin; the central role played by English radicals in the transmission of German literature; Godwin’s innovations in travel fiction; and the crystallization of authorial identity around the influence of Goethe in the work of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.

A History of England and the British Empire ...: 1689-1802

Author : Arthur Donald Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of England and the British Empire ...: 1689-1802 written by Arthur Donald Innes and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tsarina's Daughter

Author : Ellen Alpsten
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250214424
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Daughter written by Ellen Alpsten and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Alpsten's stunning new novel, The Tsarina's Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian empire. She is insulated by luxury and spoiled by her father, who dreams for her to marry King Louis XV of France and rule in Versailles. But when a woodland creature gives her a Delphic prophecy, her life is turned upside down. Her volatile father suddenly dies, her only brother has been executed and her mother takes the throne of Russia. As friends turn to foes in the dangerous atmosphere of the Court, the princess must fear for her freedom and her life. Fate deals her blow after blow, and even loving her becomes a crime that warrants cruel torture and capital punishment: Elizabeth matures from suffering victim to strong and savvy survivor. But only her true love and their burning passion finally help her become who she is. When the Imperial Crown is left to an infant Tsarevich, Elizabeth finds herself in mortal danger and must confront a terrible dilemma--seize the reins of power and harm an innocent child, or find herself following in the footsteps of her murdered brother. Hidden behind a gorgeous, wildly decadent façade, the Russian Imperial Court is a viper’s den of intrigue and ambition. Only a woman possessed of boundless courage and cunning can prove herself worthy to sit on the throne of Peter the Great.

Bewitching Russian Opera

Author : Inna Naroditskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190931876
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Bewitching Russian Opera written by Inna Naroditskaya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological approaches, her study traces the tsarinas' deeply invested interest in musical drama, as each built theaters, established drama schools, commissioned operas and ballets, and themselves wrote and produced musical plays. Naroditskaya examines the creative output of the tsarinas across the contexts in which they worked and lived, revealing significant connections between their personal creative aspirations and contemporary musical-theatrical practices, and the political and state affairs conducted during their reigns. Through contemporary performance theory, she demonstrates how the opportunity for role-playing and costume-changing in performative spaces allowed individuals to cross otherwise rigid boundaries of class and gender. A close look at a series of operas and musical theater productions--from Catherine the Great's fairy tale operas to Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame--illuminates the transition of these royal women from powerful political and cultural figures during their own reigns, to a marginalized and unreal Other under the patriarchal dominance of the subsequent period. These tsarinas successfully fostered the concept of a modern nation and collective national identity, only to then have their power and influence undone in Russian cultural consciousness through the fairy-tales operas of the 19th century that positioned tsarinas as "magical" and dangerous figures rightfully displaced and conquered--by triumphant heroes on the stage, and by the new patriarchal rulers in the state. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the theater served as an experimental space for these imperial women, in which they rehearsed, probed, and formulated gender and class roles, and performed on the musical stage political ambitions and international conquests which they would later enact on the world stage itself.