Download or read book In the Land of the Romanovs written by Anthony Cross and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.

Download or read book The System Of The World written by Neal Stephenson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.

Download or read book The First Three Sections of Newton s Principia written by Isaac Newton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second and to the Close of the Eighteenth Century written by William Tooke and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anecdotes of the Russian Empire written by William Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea written by Jonas Hanway and published by London : sold by Dodsley ; Cornhill [Eng. : sold by] Willock. This book was released on 1753 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travels Into Poland Russia Sweden and Denmark written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An English Lady at the Court of Catherine the Great written by Baroness Elizabeth Dimsdale and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peter the Great Through British Eyes written by Anthony Cross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford. Recent celebrations of the tercentenary of that visit have refocused attention on the most famous of Russian tsars, but the story of Britain's love-hate relationship with him over the intervening centuries has never before been told. This study analyses changing British reactions to Peter in an extremely wide variety of printed sources - newspapers and journals, letters and collections of anecdotes, histories and biographies, novels, poems and plays. A final innovative chapter is devoted to images of the tsar as interpreted by British painters from Godfrey Kneller to Daniel Maclise, and by a whole cohort of engravers, illustrating biographies and travel accounts.

Download or read book Changing Russia written by Stephen Graham and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended Between the Black Sea and the Caspian written by George Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople written by Baroness Elizabeth Craven Craven and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Short Historical Account of the Crimea from the Earliest Ages and During the Russian Occupation written by W. Burckhardt Barker and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden During the Years 1805 1806 1807 1808 written by Robert Ker Porter and published by Rediscovery Books Limited. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two volume set, bound as one, Robert Ker Porter writes an extensive series of letters covering his travels through these countries in the years 1805 to 1808. Following his training at the Royal Academy he gained a reputation for his paintings which included scenes of battle including Seringapatam. Here he uses his skills to illustrate his personal views of the peoples and countries visited, with forty one sketches contained in, mainly colour, plates which vividly bring to life his subject matter. Hence we are able to see these fascinating lands through his own eyes in this pleasing period travelogue.

Download or read book Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794 written by Peter Simon Pallas and published by London : Printed for J. Stockdale. This book was released on 1812 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: