Author: Ivan GolovinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Revelations of Russia Under Nicholas The First
Author: Ivan GolovinTravels in Siberia
Author: Ian FrazierPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429964316
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.
Revelation of St. John the Divine
Author: Pope John XXIIIPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780146000737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This prophetical book depicts the ultimate victory of Christ.
Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917
Author: Ben PhillipsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000516156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia’s reputation came about and discusses the effects of this reputation in turning opinion, especially in Western countries, against the Tsarist regime and in giving rise to considerable sympathy for Russian radicals and revolutionaries. It considers the writings and propaganda of a large number of different émigré groups, explores American and British journalists’ investigations and exposé press articles and charts the rise of the idea of Russian political prisoners as revolutionary and reformist heroes. Overall, the book demonstrates how important representations of Siberian exile were in shaping Western responses to the Russian Revolution.
The two aristocracies
Author: Catherine Grace F. GorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Memoirs of Lieutenant ... with His Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin, 2
Author: Joseph René BellotEastern Hospitals and English Nurses; the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari
Author: Eastern HospitalsSalathiel
Author: George CrolyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Author: Frederick Metcalf
Author: Moritz Wagner