Download or read book The Songs of St Petersburg written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.
Download or read book Moscow written by Julie R. Monroe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered in the glorious Palouse, a richly fertile area, the small Idaho town of Moscow was once home to the Nez Perce, who introduced the famous spotted Appaloosa horses. The intimate Moscow feel inspired by current residents has persisted since the original homesteaders settled here, a place they called "Paradise Valley." Resisting the anonymity of many rural agricultural towns, Moscow proudly claims an educational, civic, commercial, and cultural reputation far beyond a town of its size, a monument to the people who elevated the community.
Download or read book Moscow written by Caroline Brooke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.
Download or read book Moscow Theatres for Young People A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation 1917 2000 written by Manon van de Water and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth. It weaves together politics, pedagogy and aesthetics to reveal the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-historical conditions. It paints a picture of the theatrical developments from 1917 through to the new millennium.
Download or read book Moscow Bound written by Jason Toll and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are happy to spend their four weeks annual holiday relaxing by the sea, but not Jason Toll. So strap yourself in readers, because Toll is going to take you on the journey of a lifetime in his book, Moscow Bound. This autobiographical account, accompanied with photos, follows Jason Toll, a young Australian surfing nomad, as he backpacks through some of the most captivating and extreme locations on the planet. A luckless traveller, Jason's journey begins in war-torn Kosovo, but when he suspects that he is the target of a kidnap plot, he flees on an exciting expedition across both Eastern and Western Europe. Along the way, he traces his family heritage to the death camp of Auschwitz; he loses his passport in the Arctic; he nearly drowns whilst surfing in Morocco; he survives a night on a frozen Siberian lake in a self-made igloo; plus he experiences many other thrilling events. The journey culminates in Moscow, under a veil of illegitimate employment and gorgeous women, but not before the Russian secret service arrest Jason for spying. From Paris to Amsterdam; Kosovo to Warsaw; Stockholm to The Arctic; Siberia to Moscow; this is a trip like no other. Moscow Bound will absorb readers until the captivating end unfolds.
Download or read book Moscow Blue written by Philip Kurland and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Crocker is an international trader who spends most of his days in the USSR where he hopes to put together the mega deal that could only be pulled off in Russia. He knows the odds against success are high but he finds himself involved in an unbelievable multi-billion deal that involves the U.S.Government and the Russian military. But he never contemplated getting involved in murder.
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Download or read book Moscow s Lost Empire written by Michael Rywkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives an overview of the regional, ethnic and political structure of the Soviet empire from its establishment through its ultimate disintegration. It provides a corrective to the Russocentrism and Great Power bias that has marked most studies of the Soviet Union.
Download or read book We the Drowned written by Carsten Jensen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town. Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, and miraculous survivals. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea. Called “one of the most exciting authors in Nordic literature” by Henning Mankell, Carsten Jensen has worked as a literary critic and a journalist, reporting from China, Cambodia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and Afghanistan. He lives in Copenhagen and Marstal. “We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war’s confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike…A gorgeous, unsparing novel.”—Washington Post “A generational saga, a swashbuckling sailor’s tale, and the account of a small town coming into modernity—both Melville and Steinbeck might have been pleased to read it.”—New Republic “Dozens of stories coalesce into an odyssey taut with action and drama and suffused with enough heart to satisfy readers who want more than the breakneck thrills of ships battling the elements.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)
Download or read book Moscow Memoir written by James R. Holbrook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir portrays the ups and downs in the life and work of an American military attach in the Soviet Union from 1979-1981. The Iranian Hostage Crisis, the failed attempt to rescue those hostages, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the American-led boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics all occurred during this period. The author describes both the stark living conditions in Moscow and, based partly on his reports from Moscow that the Defense Intelligence Agency declassified, takes the reader on information collection trips to various cities in the Soviet Union. That travel was in itself an adventureonce his wife and he were forced to sleep in a provincial train station. The KGB frequently tampered with his auto and personal possessions. The authors job was to observe and report military activity that could have an impact on Soviet political-military affairs. After his earlier assignment with the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in East Germany, where military observation was relatively easy, the author became frustrated at the meager opportunities to gather useful military information in the USSR. Consequently, he became more aggressive in his collection efforts. He began traveling more or less incognito about Moscow, making civilian acquaintances and, due to his language and cultural skills, was able to blend into Soviet social gatherings. He began to take risks, some of which paid dividends. Overconfidence, however, led to an incident in Rovno, Ukraine. There the KGB set up a swallow entrapment, after which a Soviet intelligence officer, whom the author had known in East Germany, attempted to recruit him as a spy. This memoir immerses the reader in an increasingly forgotten Cold War environment that, unfortunately, may once again be on the horizon of U.S.-Russian relations.
Download or read book Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre written by and translated by Vera Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow Art Theatre is recognized as having more impact on modern theatre, than any other company. This facsimile edition of a Russian journal documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the MAT.
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Download or read book The Dalai Lama s Secret and Other Reporting Adventures written by Henry S. Bradsher and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter of a century, award-winning reporter Henry Bradsher chased stories as an Associated Press foreign correspondent. In this lively account, he relates a distinguished career that took him to the Himalayas, the jungles of Bhutan, Kremlin caviar receptions, China's Forbidden City, and the battlefields of Vietnam. Throughout this enthralling look back, he emphasizes the unpredictability of a correspondent's life: the strains, perils, and privileges of standing witness to momentous world events.
Download or read book The Nutcracker written by Bernace Charles and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Update the word talon to Talliin.
