Author : John Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 1856
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 1857
Category : London (England)
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Author : Princess Catherine Radziwill
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Victor Zhivov
Publisher : Ars Rossica
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618118042
Featuring a number of pioneering essays by the internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection includes a number of essays appearing in English for the fi rst time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia's cultural development, these essaysexamine the survival and the reconceptualization of the past in later cultural systems and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. The essays in this collection contain some important examples of Russian cultural semiotics and remain indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : P. Keenan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137311606
This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century.
Author : Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108484468
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1681775727
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's life and thought from the months before his momentous abdication to his death, with his family, in Ekaterinburg in July 1918. The story has been told many times, but Service's deep understanding of the period and his forensic examination of previously untapped sources, including the Tsar's diaries and recorded conversations, as well as the testimonies of the official inquiry, shed remarkable new light on his troubled reign, also revealing the kind of Russia that Nicholas wanted to emerge from the Great War. The Last of the Tsars is a masterful study of a man who was almost entirely out of his depth, perhaps even willfully so. It is also a compelling account of the social, economic and political ferment in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, and the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet socialist republic.
Author : Jae Curtis
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618114853
After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have gradually been rediscovered in Russia, but with his archives scattered between Russia, France, and the USA, the project of reconstructing the story of his life has been a complex task. This book, the first full biography of Zamiatin in any language, draws upon his extensive correspondence and other documents in order to provide an account of his life which explores his intimate preoccupations, as well as uncovering the political and cultural background to many of his works. It reveals a man of strong will and high principles, who negotiated the political dilemmas of his day—including his relationship with Stalin—with great shrewdness.
Author : Anthony Cross
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2014-04-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1783740574
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
