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Author: Frances Somers Cocks Publisher: ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 420
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Exploring the character of a man who rose from slavery to become a general, a wealthy landowner, a distinguished military engineer, an intellectual and bibliophile, and who triumphed over his wife's unfaithfulness. It explains the mythical status within Russia of his Great Grandson Alexander Pushkin, and how his life was destroyed by jealousy.
Author: Frances Somers Cocks Publisher: ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
Exploring the character of a man who rose from slavery to become a general, a wealthy landowner, a distinguished military engineer, an intellectual and bibliophile, and who triumphed over his wife's unfaithfulness. It explains the mythical status within Russia of his Great Grandson Alexander Pushkin, and how his life was destroyed by jealousy.
Author: Hugh Barnes Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 9781861974624 Category : Freedmen Languages : en Pages : 300
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A truly amazing 18th century life restored to history - Tsar's godson and nobleman, Russian Bluebeard, engineer of genius - who began life in an African village. When Major-General Gannibal died in 1781 in his eighties, he could look back on a long and successful life. He was the godson of Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth had given him nobility, thousands of acres, villages of serfs. His French education and a natural gift for mathematics had led him to fame as a fireworks expert and the architect of a string of fortifications from the Arctic Circle to China. As a husband he was a provincial Bluebeard, but his descendants would include the great poet Pushkin and a bevy of British aristocrats. Yet Abram Petrovich Gannibal had been born in very different circumstances. He was a black African, perhaps from Ethiopia, perhaps from modern Chad, sold as a child into slavery. In a brilliant biography Hugh Barnes who has tracked Gannibal's footsteps across three continents restores an extraordinary life to history.
Author: Jonathan Miles Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681777169 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 663
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Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of Russia’s unique glory was also created here: its literature, music, dance, and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets.It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St. Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this paradoxical and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when its fate hangs in the balance once more.
Author: Kyril FitzLyon Publisher: Companion Guides ISBN: 9781900639408 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 516
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As a guide to the hidden city, reconstructed, imagined and remembered, as well as to St Petersburg today, this book is highly recommended. It will take you to parts of the city and corners of buildings that other guides do not reach and reveal stories that others do not tell.
Author: Hugh Barnes Publisher: Profile Books(GB) ISBN: 9781861973658 Category : Africans Languages : en Pages : 300
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A truly amazing 18th century life restored to history - Tsar's godson and nobleman, Russian Bluebeard, engineer of genius - who began life in an African village. When Major-General Gannibal died in 1781 in his eighties, he could look back on a long and successful life. He was the godson of Peter the Great, the Empress Elizabeth had given him nobility, thousands of acres, villages of serfs. His French education and a natural gift for mathematics had led him to fame as a fireworks expert and the architect of a string of fortifications from the Arctic Circle to China. As a husband he was a provincial Bluebeard, but his descendants would include the great poet Pushkin and a bevy of British aristocrats. Yet Abram Petrovich Gannibal had been born in very different circumstances. He was a black African, perhaps from Ethiopia, perhaps from modern Chad, sold as a child into slavery. In a brilliant biography Hugh Barnes who has tracked Gannibal's footsteps across three continents restores an extraordinary life to history.
Author: Eduard Jerrmann Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230419428 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... possible. The count was in despair; but the case was one for which there was no remedy. At last he sent his gamekeeper for firearms. The man levelled his gun at the noble dog, but the count could not bear to behold his favourite fall by a stranger's hand. He tremblingly grasped the weapon, and took aim; but, although close to his mark, he could not see for the tears that filled his eyes, and he missed. A shot from the gamekeeper took sure effect. The dog had no sooner fallen than the count pressed his body to his breast as passionately as though it had been that of some dear and much-lamented friend. I could not longer bear to contemplate this painful scene, and drove on. Before I had turned a corner near at hand, a third shot was fired; turning quickly round I saw the valuable horse rear high in the air, and then fall lifeless to the earth. The count threw his rifle on the beast's carcase and rushed into the house. CHAPTER XXXIX. A WINTER MORNING IN THE COUNTRY. IT was a splendid winter's morning. Even before rising from his bed, the Russian is at once informed of such a day by a glance at the thermometer, which hangs between his double windows, and stands at sixteen or eighteen degrees below zero. With this dry cold the wind is always very light, and it falls in proportion as the quicksilver sinks; until, at twenty degrees below zero, there is usually a dead calm. If, in addition to this, there be a gleam of sunshine, the fine winter day is complete, and leaves nothing to be desired. On such a day was it that we started on an expedition "to the Colony." Nine o'clock struck as the sledges drove up to the door. I was informed of their arrival, or should otherwise not have been aware of it, for I could not see them from my apartment on...