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Author: Sol Shulman Publisher: Potomac Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
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"For 850 years the walls of Moscow's Kremlin have witnessed the 'reigns' of a kaleidoscope of characters - the weird and wonderful, the cruel, criminal and conniving, the stealthy, wealthy and wise, the eccentrics, the extroverts and the extraordinary. If it is true that we achieve the best understanding of history by studying its personalities, then the reader will gain a fine knowledge of Russia's past from Sol Shulman's profiles of its leaders. From the truly terrible Ivan and the great Peter to the more recent, with the dour Lenin, the ruthless Stalin, the ambitious Gorbachev and the cavalier Yeltsin, all the kings of the Kremlin have had distinctive traits." "The author's style is both light and thorough with quotes validating an already lively and informative text. He offers sufficient background data to enable his subjects to be placed in context but, in the main, concentrates on the men themselves, how they reached the top position, how they influenced the national strategy, how they changed the Kremlin and how it changed them." "Those seeking new insights into Russia and its leaders will gain much from this account whilst historians and students will relish the opportunity to be led through this time-chart of Russian rule by a native of that land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Sol Shulman Publisher: Potomac Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
"For 850 years the walls of Moscow's Kremlin have witnessed the 'reigns' of a kaleidoscope of characters - the weird and wonderful, the cruel, criminal and conniving, the stealthy, wealthy and wise, the eccentrics, the extroverts and the extraordinary. If it is true that we achieve the best understanding of history by studying its personalities, then the reader will gain a fine knowledge of Russia's past from Sol Shulman's profiles of its leaders. From the truly terrible Ivan and the great Peter to the more recent, with the dour Lenin, the ruthless Stalin, the ambitious Gorbachev and the cavalier Yeltsin, all the kings of the Kremlin have had distinctive traits." "The author's style is both light and thorough with quotes validating an already lively and informative text. He offers sufficient background data to enable his subjects to be placed in context but, in the main, concentrates on the men themselves, how they reached the top position, how they influenced the national strategy, how they changed the Kremlin and how it changed them." "Those seeking new insights into Russia and its leaders will gain much from this account whilst historians and students will relish the opportunity to be led through this time-chart of Russian rule by a native of that land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Valery Kostyleff Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated ISBN: 9781615467129 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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"Who know what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The president, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? This book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life" from the cover.
Author: Valery Kostyleff Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781635084757 Category : Languages : en Pages : 316
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Who knows what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The President, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcoholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? The world started a new time from the collapse of the Soviet Union. From this moment, the world changed dramatically. How did all this happen? Who did this? The KGB team receives an order to liquidate the advisor of President Gorbachev; the Mafia intervenes in this operation. Drunken Vice President proclaims a State of Emergency. Devil appears in Moscow. He participates in all events of this unforgettable August. The operation ends with an unpredictable finale. This book, written with humor, irony and a smile, doesn't leave the reader bored. The book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life. Valery Kostyleff prepared news for the presidents of the Soviet Union for eight years. These eight years were part of the twenty years that he spent working for Russian News Agency-TASS. Also, he worked for cruise lines and published a small newspaper entertaining the tourists. He also worked in the University of Algeria. All his life, he wrote but none have been published in the Soviet age. In the 1990s, phrases from his short novel, Who Knows the Whole Truth in Our Home?, became well known maxims in Russia. In 1991, being a TASS correspondent in Morocco, he developed problems with the KGB. Since then, he resides in Pennsylvania with his daughter.
Author: Mikhail Zygar Publisher: Public Affairs ISBN: 1610397398 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 396
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"Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred between the Russian leader and his foreign partners and opponents..."--
Author: Valery Kostyleff Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781635081695 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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An inside story, fiction or real? In a theater near you, hopefully! Who knows what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The President, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcoholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? The world started a new time from the collapse of the Soviet Union. From this moment, the world changed dramatically. How did all this happen? Who did this? The KGB team receives an order to liquidate the advisor of President Gorbachev; the Mafia intervenes in this operation. Drunken Vice President proclaims a State of Emergency. Devil appears in Moscow. He participates in all events of this unforgettable August. The operation ends with an unpredictable finale. This book, written with humor, irony and a smile, doesn't leave the reader bored. The book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life. Valery Kostyleff prepared news for the presidents of the Soviet Union for eight years. These eight years were part of the twenty years that he spent working for Russian News Agency-TASS. Also, he worked for cruise lines and published a small newspaper entertaining the tourists. He also worked at the University of Algeria. All his life, he wrote but none have been published in the Soviet age. In the 1990s, phrases from his short novel, Who Knows the Whole Truth in Our Home?, became well known maxims in Russia. In 1991, being a TASS correspondent in Morocco, he developed problems with the KGB. Since then, he resides in Pennsylvania with his daughter.
Author: Greg King Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 0470324996 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 760
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It was the most magnificent court in Europe—a world of fairy-tale opulence, ornate architecture, sophisticated fashion, extravagant luxury, and immense power. In the last Russian imperial court, a potent underlying mythology drove its participants to enact the pageantry of medieval, Orthodox Russia—infused with the sensibilities of Versailles—against a backdrop of fading Edwardian splendor, providing a spectacle of archaic ceremonies carefully orchestrated as a lavish stage upon which Nicholas II played out his tumultuous reign. While a massive body of literature has been devoted to the last of the Romanovs, The Court of the Last Tsar is the first book to examine the people, mysteries, traditions, scandals, rivalries, rituals, and riches that were part of everyday life in the last two decades of the Romanov dynasty. It is as difficult for the twenty-first-century mind to imagine the pomp and splendor that accompanied the tsar and his family everywhere they went as it was for the simple Russian peasant toiling a thousand miles from St. Petersburg. This stunningly illustrated volume removes the mystery with more than a hundred black-and-white photos; floor plans of the tsar’s Winter Palace, the Alexander Palace, and the Grand Kremlin Palace; a map of St. Petersburg; and plans of the imperial parks at Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. This eye-popping tour of hedonistic imperial Russia on the edge of oblivion draws on hundreds of previously unpublished primary sources, including memoirs, personal letters, diary entries, and official documents collected during author Greg King’s fifteen years of research in Russia and elsewhere in Europe. It invites you to experience dozens of extravagant ceremonies and entertainments attended only by members of the court; exposes the numerous sexual intrigues of the imperial family, including rape, incest, and brazen affairs; and introduces many of the more than fifteen thousand individuals who made the imperial court a society unto itself. Chief among these, of course, was Tsar Nicholas II. He ruled an empire that stretched over one-sixth of the earth’s land surface but lacked, according to one courtier, both his father’s inspiring presence and his mother’s vibrant charm. His wife, Alexandra, was a strong and passionate woman who “never developed the social skills necessary to her rank.” Their wedding and the tsar’s coronation are two of the most spectacular ceremonies described in this lavish volume. Vetted with care by the last remaining members of the Russian imperial court, The Court of the Last Tsar brings the people, places, and events of this doomed but unforgettable wonderland to vivid and sparkling life.
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