Letters From St Petersburg
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Author | : Victoria Hammond |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1741760879 |
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'I know no one. I don't speak the language. The city has a reputation for being dangerous. I've become addicted to this scenario, to the thrill of travelling alone and watching how I deal with the terrors of a strange place. But this time it's different: Ada, a curator at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, is meeting me. At least I hope to god she's meeting me.' With its shimmering palaces and decaying mansions, enchanted forests and basements crammed full of Soviet art, St Petersburg is a city of ghosts and illusions where past and present, and reality and fiction are inextricably fused. In this city blasted by history it is not the grand events but the intimate details that Victoria Hammond is drawn to: a walk through Dostoevsky's streets on a white night; the friendship between a mafia boss and a Siberian tiger; a swim in the warmth of a moonlit Russian lake; stories of struggling artists and dignified intellectuals eking out existences in single rooms. Beautifully written, strange and evocative, Letters from St Petersburg is a compelling account of one woman's journey to the mysterious and surprising heart of behind Russia.
Author | : Narisa Chakrabongse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Princes |
ISBN | : 9786167339580 |
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The prince was sent to study in Tsarist Russia with all the costs of his 8-year stay paid by the Tsar.The letters he wrote home provide a fascinating insight into the Corps des Pages, where he studied,Tsar Nicholas II and the Imperial family (who treated him like a member of the family) and the role that Siam occupied in Russia's desire to gain a foothold in the East. As tsarevitch, Nicholas had visited Bangkok in 1891 as part of his Eastern Tour which culminated in the opening of the Eastern end of theTrans-Siberian railway inVladivostock in 1893. Lavishly entertained by King Chulalongkorn, an enduring friendship began, and the Siamese king credited the Tsar with helping prevent further French incursions. Meanwhile the king's letters to his son are frank and revealing of his thoughts on politics, his family, his health and his plans for the future. Telegrams reacting to important events such as the revolution in 1905 give further insights.A few letters between Prince Chakrabongse and his future wife Ekaterina Desnitskaya before they eloped to Constantinople are also included. Read in conjunction with the formal letters to his father, they provide a glimpse of his state of mind at that time. 300 b/w photographs
Author | : William Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1784 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Mayall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781547065462 |
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Author | : Marquis de Custine |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141394528 |
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The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.
Author | : William Handyside |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Letters |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph de Maistre |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1993-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0773563806 |
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Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect in the twenty-first century. As the literary critic George Steiner has remarked, "the age of the Gulag and of Auschwitz, of famine and ubiquitous torture ... nuclear threat, the ecological laying waste of our planet, the leap of endemic, possibly pandemic, illness out of the very matrix of libertarian progress" is exactly what Joseph de Maistre foretold. In the Dialogues Maistre addressed a number of topics that are discussed briefly or not at all in his other works already available in English. These include an apologetic for traditional Christian beliefs about providence, reflections on the social role of the public executioner and the "divinity" of war, a critique of John Locke's sensationalist psychology, meditations on prayer and sacrifice, and a mini-course on "illuminism." The literary form is that of the "philosophical conversation" – one that allowed Maistre to be deliberately provocative and to indulge his taste for paradox, a "methodical extravagance" that he judged particularly appropriate for the eighteenth-century salon. Translator and editor Richard Lebrun provides a full scholarly edition of this classic work, complete with an introduction, chronology, critical bibliography, and generous explanatory notes. The Dialogues will be of interest to scholars of literary history as well as the history of ideas.
Author | : William Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780461201338 |
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Author | : William Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436777834 |
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Author | : William Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
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