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Book Synopsis The Winter Palace by : Eva Stachniak
Download or read book The Winter Palace written by Eva Stachniak and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for the Empress's heir. Set to spy on her, Vavara soon becomes her friend and confidante, and helps her navigate the illicit liaisons and the treacherous shifting allegiances of the court. But Sophie's destiny is to become the notorious Catherine the Great. Are her ambitions more lofty and far-reaching than anyone suspected, and will she stop at nothing to achieve absolute power?
Book Synopsis The Winter Palace and the People by : Susan McCaffray
Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.
Book Synopsis The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg by : Militsa Filipovna Korshunova
Download or read book The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg written by Militsa Filipovna Korshunova and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsar Nicholas I commissioned 128 delightful watercolors depicting views and interiors of the private and state apartments of the Winter Palace, the main imperial residence of Saint Petersburg. These watercolors together make up one of the jewels of the collections of the Hermitage Museum. Of immense documentary value, they are also - with their crystalline clarity and their irresistible elegance - dazzling examples of the graphic art of the nineteenth century. Immortalizing as they do the splendor of the first palace of the Russian sovereigns, they are of immeasurably greater interest than other works of decorative art of this type. In a technical tour de force, these artists contrived to depict space in such a way that their paintings present a broader perspective than could normally be taken in by the naked eye.
Book Synopsis Nikolai Evreinov & Others by : Николай Николаевич Евреинов
Download or read book Nikolai Evreinov & Others written by Николай Николаевич Евреинов and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1920, the third anniversary of the October Revolution, The Storming of the Winter Palace was performed with a cast of 10,000. The mass spectacle, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, was a kind of false, deceptive reenactment. It was intended to recall something--the storming of the Winter Palace as the beginning of the revolution--that it itself produced as a theatrical medium. This volume reconstructs the event with texts, photographs, and drawings, and shows how not only in the Soviet Union did the photograph of the theatrical "storming" became a historical document of the October Revolution."--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The Winter Palace and the People by : Susan McCaffray
Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history."--Amazon.
Book Synopsis The Winter Palace by : Eva Stachniak
Download or read book The Winter Palace written by Eva Stachniak and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind every great ruler lies a betrayal. Eva Stachniak's novel sweeps readers into the passionate, intimate, and treacherous world of Catherine the Great, revealing Russia's greatest matriarch from her earliest days in court, where the most valuable currency was the secrets of nobility and the most dangerous weapon to wield was ambition. Two young women, caught in the landscape of shifting allegiances, navigate the treacherous waters of palace intrigue. Barbara is a servant who will become one of Russia's most cunning royal spies. Sophia is a pretty, naive German duchess who will become Catherine the Great. For readers of superb historical fiction, Eva Stachniak captures in glorious detail the opulence of royalty and the perilous loyalties of the Russian court.
Book Synopsis From The Summer garden to The Winter Palace. Phototravel on The Left bank of Neva by : Valery Pikulev
Download or read book From The Summer garden to The Winter Palace. Phototravel on The Left bank of Neva written by Valery Pikulev and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary and art photostory about a left-bank part of St. Petersburg: about The Summer garden, with its openwork lattice... about Atlases, about The Winter Palace and The Palace Square, – about majestic ensemble marking The Great Victory over Napoleon’s hordes... about The Alexander Column which is still surprising the whole world... Supplied with several tens color photos, the story about The Nevsky Left bank, about The Moscow side of The Northern Capital, will not leave indifferent anybody.
Book Synopsis Winter Palace (Priceless Collection Book #3) by : T. Davis Bunn
Download or read book Winter Palace (Priceless Collection Book #3) written by T. Davis Bunn and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle--for power, wealth, and souls--in the crumbling Soviet Empire Passing through Florian's Gate...having discovered the Amber Room...T. Davis Bunn now takes his readers to the Winter Palace! Jeffrey Sinclair is on top of the world. He is growing in professional success in the antiques trade, in his spiritual quest for a better understanding of God, and in his love for the beautiful Katya. But his world is suddenly shaken when his mentor Alexander falls ill, leaving Jeffrey to take on new responsibilities. What begins as an enjoyable honeymoon visit to Monte Carlo, ends with a mysterious assignment to reclaim a deposed Russian nobleman's winter palace. Thrust into the turbulence of modern-day St. Petersburg, Jeffrey's search constantly links him to the riches of its tsarist history. Here he confronts the dangerous collusion that has emerged between former Communist Party members, KGB agents, and self-styled "Mafia" gangs of criminals and black-marketers. But most striking to him is the material and spiritual hunger which gnaws at the people. Who will meet this incredible need? And is it just the estate Count Markov seeks to recover, or is there something more?
Book Synopsis The Winter Palace: A May December Love Story by : Victor A. Wilkie
Download or read book The Winter Palace: A May December Love Story written by Victor A. Wilkie and published by Victor WIlkie. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people in two prisons without bars, but captive nonetheless. Time and circumstances had kept them apart, but now they are about to be brought together by fate. Mara Johansen runs away from her Maryland home to search for something missing within, to search for purpose, for herself. Instead, she finds herself stranded in a winter storm in the great northwest. Sanctuary comes in the form of a wooden mansion on a distant hill, but who is the mysterious owner? Thomas is a handsome, wealthy man who lives alone in this beautiful, colossal structure. As witty and charming as he is mysterious, Mara soon learns that he has a most sordid past. And yet, she is strangely drawn in, and what follows is a tale of romance and intrigue, a story of two souls – one on the verge of giving up and the other believing his time is over - who face danger and find love, together. The Winter Palace is a beautiful romance, the story of a monument to the hopes and dreams of every decent man, woman, and child, a story that reminds us that we never know what may show up at our door, including true love.
Download or read book Winter Garden written by Kristin Hannah and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time—and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.
Book Synopsis The Shadow Of The Winter Palace by : Edward Crankshaw
Download or read book The Shadow Of The Winter Palace written by Edward Crankshaw and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement—the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters—and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present"(Atlantic Monthly).
Book Synopsis Grand and Private Rooms of the Winter Palace by : Tatyana Sonina
Download or read book Grand and Private Rooms of the Winter Palace written by Tatyana Sonina and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning volume presenting the history of the Winter Palace. The Winter Palace is connected with the life of Russia and Saint Petersburg for more than 250 years. Externally the Palace has remained true to the original design, however its interior has been updated numerous times for the royal family members'needs, status, and artistic tastes. These changes are reflected in splendid illustrations, primarily from the State Hermitage collection. This richly illustrated book will let you both walk along the halls of bygone epochs and become acquainted with the Palace's modern life and it's magnificent art collection
Book Synopsis Blood Stained Russia by : Donald C. Thompson
Download or read book Blood Stained Russia written by Donald C. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Palace of the Snow Queen by : Barbara Sjoholm
Download or read book The Palace of the Snow Queen written by Barbara Sjoholm and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes—now back in print with a new afterword by the author After many years of travel in the Nordic countries—usually preferring to visit during the warmer months—Barbara Sjoholm found herself drawn to Lapland and Sápmi one winter just as mørketid, the dark time, set in. What ensued was a wide-ranging journey that eventually spanned three winters, captivatingly recounted in The Palace of the Snow Queen. From observing the annual construction of the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, to crossing the storied Finnmark Plateau in Norway, to attending a Sámi film festival in Finland, Sjoholm dives deep into the rich traditions and vibrant creative communities of the North. She writes of past travelers to Lapland and contemporary tourists in Sápmi, as well as of her encounters with Indigenous reindeer herders, activists, and change-makers. Her new afterword bears witness to the perseverance of the Sámi in the face of tourism, development, and climate change. Written with keen insight and humor, The Palace of the Snow Queen is a vivid account of Sjoholm’s adventures and a timely investigation of how ice and snow shape our imaginations and create a vision that continues to draw visitors to the North.
Download or read book Ice Palace written by Deborah Blumenthal and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.
Book Synopsis Winter Solstice by : Rosamunde Pilcher
Download or read book Winter Solstice written by Rosamunde Pilcher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life -- shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name -- still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.
Download or read book The Ice Palace written by Tarjei Vesaas and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of what is commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other's company. But so profound is this evening between them that when Unn inexplicably disappears, Siss's world is shattered. Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of her friend and Unn's fatal exploration of the strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall that is the Ice Palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the most memorable achievements of modern literature.
