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Languages : en
Pages : 639
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The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow
Author: The Character of the Russians
Author: Robert LyallPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. With a Dissertation on the Russian Language; and an Appendix, Containing Tables, Political, Statistical, and Historical; an Account of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a Catalogue of Plants Found in and Near Moscow; an Essay on the Origin and Progress of Architecture in Russia, Etc. Etc. By Robert Lyall, M. D., Member of the Imperial Societies of Agriculture and Natural History, and of the Physico-medical-society, at Moscow; and of Several Societies in Great Britain
Author: Robert LyallThe Character of the Russians and Detailled History of Moscow... with a Dissertation on the Russian Language, and an Appendix, Containing Tables Political, Statistical, and Historical... by Robert Lyall,...
Author: Robert LyallThe character of the Russians, and a detailed history of Moscow. With a dissertation on the Russian language.
Author: Robert LyallA Gentleman in Moscow
Author: Amor TowlesPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448135508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers Soon to be a Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel 'A wonderful book' - Tana French 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD
The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow
Author: Robert LyallThe New Russians
Author: Hedrick SmithPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307829383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 925
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years. *The New York Times Book Review Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination for all of us, and not only because it affected our destiny, our survival, even the changing nature of our own society. What happened there riveted our interest for a deeper reason: It was a modern enactment of one of the archetypal stories of human existence, that of the struggle from darkness to light, from poverty toward prosperity, from dictatorship toward democracy. It represented an affirmation of the relentless human struggle to break free from the bonds of hierarchy and dogma, to strive for a better life, for stronger, richer values. It was an affirmation of the human capacity for change, growth, renewal. The New Russians is about how that story of change began and what this change meant for the Russian people—and for the rest of the world.
Author: Robert Lyall
Author: Robert Lyall