Recollections of Imperial Russia
Title | Recollections of Imperial Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Meriel Buchanan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Recollections of Imperial Russia
Title | Recollections of Imperial Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Meriel Buchanan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
Revolutionary Days
Title | Revolutionary Days PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Grant Kantakuzen (kniagini︠a︡) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN |
A Bride for the Tsar
Title | A Bride for the Tsar PDF eBook |
Author | Russell E. Martin |
Publisher | Northern Illinois University Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2012-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501756656 |
From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one—usually without speaking to any of them—and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar's consort. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.
Crimson Snow
Title | Crimson Snow PDF eBook |
Author | David Shone |
Publisher | Hour Glass |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2007-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0979892309 |
Civil war looms in the House of Romanov, as members of the royal family speak freely of a regime change. Only a young prince wounded by the war and a ballerina past her prime can stop the upcoming bloodshed.
Where Two Worlds Met
Title | Where Two Worlds Met PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Khodarkovsky |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801425554 |
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources--including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoman archival materials--Michael Khodarkovsky offers a fresh interpretation of this long and destructive conflict, which ended with the unruly frontier becoming another province of the Russian empire.Khodarkovsky first sketches a cultural anthropology of the Kalmyk tribes, focusing on the assumptions they brought to the interactions with one another and with the sedentary cultures they encountered. In light of this portrait of Kalmyk culture and internal politics, Khodarkovsky rereads from the Kalmyk point of view the Russian history of disputes between the two peoples. Whenever possible, he compares Ottoman accounts of these events with the Russian sources on which earlier interpretations have been based. Khodarkovsky's analysis deepens our understanding of the history of Russian expansion and establishes a new paradigm for future study of the interaction between the Russians and the non-Russian peoples of Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
Year One of the Russian Revolution
Title | Year One of the Russian Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Serge |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 2017-01-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608466094 |
An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. “A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work” (Richard Allday of Counterfire). Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge’s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to Soviet democracy and the crippling circumstances that began to chip away at its historic gains. Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge’s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia. Praise for Victor Serge “Serge is one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Award “His political recollections are very important, because they reflect so well the mood of this lost generation . . . His articles and books speak for themselves, and we would be poorer without them.” —Partisan Review “I know of no other writer with whom Serge can be very usefully compared. The essence of the man and his books is to be found in his attitude to the truth.” —John Berger, Booker Prize–winning author “The novels, poems, memoirs and other writings of Victor Serge are among the finest works of literature inspired by the October Revolution that brought the working class to power in Russia in 1917.” —Scott McLemee, writer of the weekly “Intellectual Affairs” column for Inside Higher Ed