The Daughter of Peter the Great
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1959
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Born in 1709, the illegitimate daughter of Peter the Great and a woman of Livonian yeoman stock, Elizabeth was the only one of the Tsar's many children to survive to maturity. She lived through the reigns of four monarchs after her father's death, before seizing the throne in 1741 at the age of thirty-two. Faced with governing a country made unstable by frequent changes of ruler and caught up in a web of international politics, she evolved a policy that set Russia on the road to becoming a major Western power.--From book jacket.
Author : Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134318197
Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, this is the definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, and the first modern biography of Olympias.
Author : Philip Longworth
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 019974551X
The careers of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great (III) were interlocked in innumerable ways: Philip II centralized ancient Macedonia, created an army of unprecedented skill and flexibility, came to dominate the Greek peninsula, and planned the invasion of the Persian Empire with a combined Graeco-Macedonian force, but it was Alexander who actually led the invading forces, defeated the great Persian Empire, took his army to the borders of modern India, and created a monarchy and empire that, despite its fragmentation, shaped the political, cultural, and religious world of the Hellenistic era. Alexander drove the engine his father had built, but had he not done so, Philip's achievements might have proved as ephemeral as had those of so many earlier Macedonian rulers. On the other hand, some scholars believe that Alexander played a role, direct or indirect, in the murder of his father, so that he could lead the expedition to Asia that his father had organized. In short, it is difficult to understand or assess one without considering the other. This collection of previously unpublished articles looks at the careers and impact of father and son together. Some of the articles consider only one of the Macedonian rulers although most deal with both, and with the relationship, actual or imagined, between the two. The volume will contain articles on military and political history but also articles that look at the self-generated public images of Philip and Alexander, the counter images created by their enemies, and a number that look at how later periods understood them, concluding with the Hollywood depiction of the relationship. Despite the plethora of collected works that deal with Philip and Alexander, this volume promises to make a genuine contribution to the field by focusing specifically on their relationship to one another.
Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307755363
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders. Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry." Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley—and in their own lives as well.
Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781842121627
Elizabeth Jenkins illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth 1. Was she bald? What precisely was her sex-life? What were her emotional attachments?No other biography provides such a personal study of the Queen and her court - their daily lives, concerns, topics of conversation, meals, living conditions, travels, successes and failures - but it also places them firmly within the historical context of 16th Century Britain. An authoritative history of the period enlightened by a through understanding of Elizabethan society and an intimate portrait of the Queen.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410345114
A Study Guide for Elizabeth Jenkins's "Elizabeth the Great," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Susan Ronald
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312645384
From an acclaimed biographer, an account of Elizabeth I focusing on her role in the Wars on Religion that tore apart Europe in the 16th century.