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Author : Anthony Glenn Cross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Days from the Reigns of Eighteenth-century Russian Rulers written by Anthony Glenn Cross and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsey Hughes
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Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Days from the Reigns of Eighteenth-century Russian Rulers written by Lindsey Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Glenn Cross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Days from the Reigns of Eighteenth Century Russianrulers written by Anthony Glenn Cross and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Glenn Cross
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Days from the Reigns of Eighteenth-century Russian Rulers written by Anthony Glenn Cross and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777169
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Jonathan Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a window to Europe and the Enlightenment, but so much of Russia’s unique glory was also created here: its literature, music, dance, and, for a time, its political vision. It gave birth to the artistic genius of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, Pavlova and Nureyev. Yet, for all its glittering palaces, fairytale balls and enchanting gardens, the blood of thousands has been spilt on its snow-filled streets.It has been a hotbed of war and revolution, a place of siege and starvation, and the crucible for Lenin and Stalin’s power-hungry brutality. In St. Petersburg, Jonathan Miles recreates the drama of three hundred years in this paradoxical and brilliant city, bringing us up to the present day, when its fate hangs in the balance once more.
Author : P. Keenan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137311606
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703-1761 written by P. Keenan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century.
Author : Simon Dixon
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1907322035
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personality and Place in Russian Culture written by Simon Dixon and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsey Hughes (1949-2007) made her reputation as one of the foremost historians of the age of Peter the Great by revealing the more freakish aspects of the tsar's complex mind and reconstructing the various physical environments in which he lived. Contributors to Personality and Place in Russian Culture were encouraged to develop any of the approaches featured in Hughes's work: pointillist and panoramic, playful and morbid, quotidian and bizarre. The result is a rich and original collection, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, in which a group of leading international scholars explore the role of the individual in Russian culture, the myriad variety of individual lives, and the changing meanings invested in particular places. The editor, Simon Dixon, is Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Author : Nancy Kollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025133
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia written by Nancy Kollmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.
Author : Patrick Lally Michelson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299298949
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thinking Orthodox in Modern Russia written by Patrick Lally Michelson and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on Russian religious thought focuses on the extent to which Russian culture and ideology has been informed by the nation's roots in Orthodox Christianity.
Author : Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757466
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia written by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable study explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid to late eighteenth century. Grounded in close reading of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon (Levshin), Court preacher and Metropolitan of Moscow, the book examines the blending of European ideas into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy. Highlighting the interplay between Enlightenment thought and Orthodox enlightenment, Elise Wirtschafter addresses key questions of concern to religious Enlighteners across Europe: humanity's relationship to God and creation, the distinction between learning and enlightenment, the role of Christian love in authority relationships, the meaning of free will in a universe governed by Divine Providence, and the unity of church, monarchy, and civil society. Countering scholarship that depicts an Orthodox religious culture under assault from European modernity and Petrine absolutism, Wirtschafter emphasizes the ability of Russia's educated churchmen to assimilate and transform Enlightenment ideas. The intellectual and spiritual vitality of eighteenth-century Orthodoxy helps to explain how Russian policymakers and intellectuals met the challenge of European power while simultaneously coming to terms with the broad cultural appeal of the Enlightenment's universalistic human rights agenda. Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia defines the Russian Enlightenment as a response to the allure of European modernity, as an instrument of social control, and as the moral voice of an emergent independent society. Because Russia's enlightened intellectuals focused on the moral perfectibility of the individual human being, rather than social and political change, the originality of the Russian Enlightenment has gone unrecognized. This study corrects images of a superficial Enlightenment and crisis-ridden religious culture, arguing that in order to understand the humanistic sensibility and emphasis on individual dignity that permeate Russian intellectual history, and the history of the educated classes more broadly, it is necessary to bring Orthodox teachings into the discussion of Enlightenment thought. The result is a book that explains the distinctive origins of modern Russian culture while also allowing scholars to situate the Russian Enlightenment in European and global history.
