Download or read book A Russian Princess Remembers written by Ekaterina Meshcherskaya and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Russian Princess Remembers written by Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Meshcherskai︠a︡ (kni︠a︡zhna) and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, thanks to the opening door of Soviet glasnost, 83-year-old Kitty Meshcherskaya, a member of Russian royalty in the early 1900s, tells her remarkable story, including the 23 searches of her home through the years; stories of tsars and princes, Lenin and Stalin, and Gorbachev; and memoirs from wars and the Bolshevik Revolution. 30 photos.
Download or read book A Russian Life written by Elizabeth Zinovieff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Russian Princess written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Princess Remembers written by Elizabeth Zinovieff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Russian Princess written by Katoumba Pasha and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of a Russian Princess written by Katoumbah (pasha.) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Russian Princess written by Pasha Katoumbah and published by . This book was released on 1906* with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Revolution written by Anna Horsbrugh Porter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia.
Download or read book The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova written by Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743 – 1810) was a leading figure of the Russian Enlightenment and the closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great. By her own account, she played a critical role in the coup d'état by which the autocratic Peter III was overthrown and Catherine was raised to the throne. In her travels abroad, she met Diderot, Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. Catherine later named her the first female head of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences, and then the Russian Academy.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Russian Princess written by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and published by Red Stripe. This book was released on 1989-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Romanov Empress written by C. W. Gortner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. “This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son. The winds of fortune bring Minnie to Russia, where she marries the Romanov heir, Alexander, and once he ascends the throne, becomes empress. When resistance to his reign strikes at the heart of her family and the tsar sets out to crush all who oppose him, Minnie—now called Maria—must tread a perilous path of compromise in a country she has come to love. Her husband’s death leaves their son Nicholas as the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that will bring Russia into the modern age, Maria faces implacable opposition from Nicholas’s strong-willed wife, Alexandra, whose fervor has led her into a disturbing relationship with a mystic named Rasputin. As the unstoppable wave of revolution rises anew to engulf Russia, Maria will face her most dangerous challenge and her greatest heartache. From the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg and the intrigue-laced salons of the aristocracy to the World War I battlefields and the bloodied countryside occupied by the Bolsheviks, C. W. Gortner sweeps us into the anarchic fall of an empire and the complex, bold heart of the woman who tried to save it. Praise for The Romanov Empress “Timely . . . [Gortner’s] ability to weave what reads as a simple tale from such complex historical and familial storylines is impressive. . . . Maria’s life as a royal reads like a historical soap opera.”—USA Today “Gortner, an experienced hand at recreating the unique aura of a particular time and place, will deftly sweep historical-fictions fans into this glamorous, turbulent, and ultimately tragic chapter in history.”—Booklist (starred review) “Mesmerizing . . . This insightful first-person account of the downfall of the Romanov rule . . . is the powerful story of a mother trying to save her family and an aristocrat fighting to maintain rule in a country of rebellion.”—Publishers Weekly “A twist on the tragic story you’ve heard many times before.”—Bustle
Download or read book Former People written by Douglas Smith and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries'-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Yet Former People is also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called "former people" and "class enemies"—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on. Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith, Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia's most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.
Download or read book A Russian Princess and a Russian Ghost Story written by Edward Tracy Turnerelli and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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