Author: Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674985728
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--
A World of Empires
Author: Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674985728
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674985728
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--
Siberian Odyssey
Author: Frederick Kempe
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the Berlin Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal--author of Divorcing the Dictator--comes a dramatic account of an expedition to an almost mythical place, the land of Russia's grandest dreams and cruelest nightmares. In a place where contradictions arise at ever turn, Kempe found not only an adventure but an unparalleled window into the Russian soul. 8 pages of photographs.
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the Berlin Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal--author of Divorcing the Dictator--comes a dramatic account of an expedition to an almost mythical place, the land of Russia's grandest dreams and cruelest nightmares. In a place where contradictions arise at ever turn, Kempe found not only an adventure but an unparalleled window into the Russian soul. 8 pages of photographs.
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
Author: Anton Chekov
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141025506
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141025506
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
A Voyage Round the World
Author: I︠U︡riĭ Lisi︠a︡nskiĭ
Publisher: London : Printed for John Booth, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: London : Printed for John Booth, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Border - a Journey Around Russia
Author: ERIKA. FATLAND
Publisher: MacLehose Press
ISBN: 9780857057785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: MacLehose Press
ISBN: 9780857057785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Travels From St. Petersburg In Russia, To Diverse Parts Of Asia
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia, the Frozen Ocean, and the North-east Sea
Author: Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia
Journey to the North of India
The Russian Court at Sea
Author: Frances Welch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 20 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. This book recreates this voyage, with its bizarre assortment of warring characters and its priceless cargo of treasures.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 20 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. This book recreates this voyage, with its bizarre assortment of warring characters and its priceless cargo of treasures.