Saving The Tsars Palaces

Author : Christopher Morgan & Irina Orlova
Publisher : Polperro Heritage Press
ISBN 13 : 0953001296
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving The Tsar's Palaces written by Christopher Morgan & Irina Orlova and published by Polperro Heritage Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of those who battled to save the palaces, not just during and after the war, but during the Revolution and the harsh times that followed.

Author : Emmanuel Ducamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500516478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs written by Emmanuel Ducamp and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned photographs by Marc Walter and fascinating archive images capture a bygone age of Romanov splendor that will captivate art lovers and historians alike

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250151236
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race to Save the Romanovs written by Helen Rappaport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family was commemorated in 2018 by a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murders themselves have received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots and plans behind the scenes to save the family—on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the claim that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional view for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the US, Russia, Spain and the UK, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs.

Author : Nina Valentinovna Vernova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780828112857
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Russia written by Nina Valentinovna Vernova and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Malpas Clarke
Publisher : National Museums of Scotland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs written by William Malpas Clarke and published by National Museums of Scotland. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Romanov jewels and of Englishman Albert Stopford who risked his life to smuggle millions of pounds worth of of the precious gems from Russia to London in 1917.

Author : Susan McCaffray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092473
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.

Author : Zoia Belyakova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874371274
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romanov Legacy written by Zoia Belyakova and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of St Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great in 1703, is famous for the beauty of its architecture. The interiors of these splendid buildings are much less well known. The palaces that have survived intact are still furnished and decorated as they were left at the beginning of the Communist Revolution with sumptuous fabrics, furniture, glassware, china and detailed marquetry . Many of those that were destroyed during the siege of Leningrad are being restored to their former splendour. Drawing on material collected by Zoia Belyakova, a Russian art historian who lives in St Petersburg, this book documents the history of these unique buildings.

Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142003816
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kitchen Boy written by Robert Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the eyes of their young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs’ brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family. Does he hold the key to the many questions surrounding the family’s murder? Historically vivid and compelling, The Kitchen Boy is also a touching portrait of a loving family that was in many ways similar, yet so different, from any other. "Ingenious...Keeps readers guessing through the final pages." —USA Today

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099520095
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ekaterinburg written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.

Author : Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ
Publisher : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 : 0789202174
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Petersburg written by Dmitriĭ Olegovich Shvidkovskiĭ and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before becoming a city, St. Petersburg was a utopian vision in the mind of its founder, Peter the Great. Conceived by him as Russia's "window to the West," it evolved into a remarkably harmonious assemblage of baroque, rococo, neoclassical, and art nouveau buildings that reflect his taste and that of his successors, including Anna I, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Crisscrossed by rivers and canals, this "Venice of the North," as Goethe dubbed it, is of unique beauty. Never before has that beauty been captured as eloquently as on the pages of this sumptuous volume. From the stately mansions lining the fabled Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent palaces of the tsars on the outskirts of the city, including Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, and Pavlovsk, photographer Alexander Orloff's portrait of St. Petersburg does full justice to the vision of its founder and namesake. The text, by art historian Dmitri Shvidkovsky, chronicles the history of the city's planning and construction from Peter the Great's time to the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Anyone who has ever visited--or dreamed of visiting--the city of "white nights" will find St. Petersburg irresistible.