An Englishman In The Court Of The Tsar

Author : Christine L. Benagh
Publisher : Conciliar Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar written by Christine L. Benagh and published by Conciliar Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the turbulent backdrop of the early twentieth century, this fascinating true-life account reads almost like a novel. Demoralized by the encroaching liberalism of the Anglican Church, Englishman Charles Sydney Gibbes travels abroad in a crisis of faith. Finding work as a tutor to the Russian aristocracy, his world is changed forever when he receives a personal invitation from Empress Alexandra Fedorovna to become a tutor to her children. His intimate connection with the Imperial Family for the next ten years carries him into their mesmerizing world of elegance and nobility, then is shattered by their brutal murders at the hands of the Red Army. Following them to Siberia and later continuing on to China, Gibbes eventually returns full circle to Great Britain, there dedicating his life as an Orthodox priest to the memory of the Imperial Family, and the faith he discovered in their distant homeland.

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470324996
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court of the Last Tsar written by Greg King and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the most magnificent court in Europe—a world of fairy-tale opulence, ornate architecture, sophisticated fashion, extravagant luxury, and immense power. In the last Russian imperial court, a potent underlying mythology drove its participants to enact the pageantry of medieval, Orthodox Russia—infused with the sensibilities of Versailles—against a backdrop of fading Edwardian splendor, providing a spectacle of archaic ceremonies carefully orchestrated as a lavish stage upon which Nicholas II played out his tumultuous reign. While a massive body of literature has been devoted to the last of the Romanovs, The Court of the Last Tsar is the first book to examine the people, mysteries, traditions, scandals, rivalries, rituals, and riches that were part of everyday life in the last two decades of the Romanov dynasty. It is as difficult for the twenty-first-century mind to imagine the pomp and splendor that accompanied the tsar and his family everywhere they went as it was for the simple Russian peasant toiling a thousand miles from St. Petersburg. This stunningly illustrated volume removes the mystery with more than a hundred black-and-white photos; floor plans of the tsar’s Winter Palace, the Alexander Palace, and the Grand Kremlin Palace; a map of St. Petersburg; and plans of the imperial parks at Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof. This eye-popping tour of hedonistic imperial Russia on the edge of oblivion draws on hundreds of previously unpublished primary sources, including memoirs, personal letters, diary entries, and official documents collected during author Greg King’s fifteen years of research in Russia and elsewhere in Europe. It invites you to experience dozens of extravagant ceremonies and entertainments attended only by members of the court; exposes the numerous sexual intrigues of the imperial family, including rape, incest, and brazen affairs; and introduces many of the more than fifteen thousand individuals who made the imperial court a society unto itself. Chief among these, of course, was Tsar Nicholas II. He ruled an empire that stretched over one-sixth of the earth’s land surface but lacked, according to one courtier, both his father’s inspiring presence and his mother’s vibrant charm. His wife, Alexandra, was a strong and passionate woman who “never developed the social skills necessary to her rank.” Their wedding and the tsar’s coronation are two of the most spectacular ceremonies described in this lavish volume. Vetted with care by the last remaining members of the Russian imperial court, The Court of the Last Tsar brings the people, places, and events of this doomed but unforgettable wonderland to vivid and sparkling life.

Author : Frederick Whishaw
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364720967
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Boyar of the Terrible written by Frederick Whishaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Boyar of the Terrible: A Romance of the Court of Ivan the Cruel, First Tsar of Russia My dear master and friend has gone to the grave before me but I thank the Almighty that before it pleased Him to take my sovereign to Himself, it seemed good to Him to reconcile us two, one to the other for, alas we had been, largely through my own action, as I freely acknowledge and admit, estranged for many years, and though I have many and many a time endeavoured to reinstate myself in my master's favour, yet until the last few years of his eventful life I never fully did so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Coryne Hall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445681986
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Free the Romanovs written by Coryne Hall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murders but also the exciting escapes of the wider Romanov family - the Tsar’s mother, siblings and cousins. Did George V let his cousin the Tsar and his family die?

Author : Brian Allen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300116780
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia & Muscovy written by Brian Allen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying an exhibition of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. The silver items - a large water pot with snake-shaped flagon shaped like a leopard, and more - exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia.

Author : Frederick J. Whishaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Boyar of the Terrible written by Frederick J. Whishaw and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Whishaw
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357996437
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Boyar of the Terrible written by Frederick Whishaw and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312379765
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Romanovs written by Helen Rappaport and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brutal murder of the Russian Imperial family was both a human tragedy anda turning point in world history. This work gives a riveting moment by momentaccount of the last 13 days of their lives. b&w photo insert.

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 047089086X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resurrection of the Romanovs written by Greg King and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess. Penetrates the intriguing mysteries surrounding the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the true fate of his daughter, Anastasia Reveals previously unknown details of Anderson's life as Franziska Schanzkowska Explains how Anderson acquired her knowledge, why people believed her claim, and how it transformed Anastasia into a cultural phenomenon Draws on unpublished materials including Schanzkowska family memoirs, legal papers, and exclusive access to private documents of the British and Hessian Royal Families Includes 75 photographs, dozens published here for the first time Written by the authors of The Fate of the Romanovs Refuting long-accepted evidence in the Anderson case, The Resurrection of the Romanovs finally explodes the greatest royal mystery of the twentieth-century.

Author : Mesa Potamos Publications
Publisher : Mesa Potamos Publications
ISBN 13 : 9963951775
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal written by Mesa Potamos Publications and published by Mesa Potamos Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based strictly on primary sources, the book The Romanov Royal Martyrs is a unique biography, offering previously unpublished texts in English from letters, testimonies, diaries, memoirs, and other sources. An impressive book, featuring more than 200 black & white photographs, and a 56-page full-colour photo insert of more than 80 high-quality images, appearing here in print for the first time.