Treasures Of The Russian North

Author : S. V. Zharnikova
Publisher : WP IPGEB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasures of the Russian North written by S. V. Zharnikova and published by WP IPGEB. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the minerals of the Russian North and serves as an annex to Chapter 8 of the «Wealth of the Russian North» book «East Europe as a proto-homeland of the Indo-Europeans», 3 parts of the monograph «The Origin of the Indo-Europeans». 1989-2013.

Author : Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ muzeĭ (Moscow, Russia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unseen Treasures written by Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ muzeĭ (Moscow, Russia) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Craft Brumfield
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375435
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture at the End of the Earth written by William Craft Brumfield and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North, is sparsely populated and immensely isolated. It is also the home to architectural marvels, as many of the original wooden and brick churches and homes in the region's ancient villages and towns still stand. Featuring nearly two hundred full color photographs of these beautiful centuries-old structures, Architecture at the End of the Earth is the most recent addition to William Craft Brumfield's ongoing project to photographically document all aspects of Russian architecture. The architectural masterpieces Brumfield photographed are diverse: they range from humble chapels to grand cathedrals, buildings that are either dilapidated or well cared for, and structures repurposed during the Soviet era. Included are onion-domed wooden churches such as the Church of the Dormition, built in 1674 in Varzuga; the massive walled Transfiguration Monastery on Great Solovetsky Island, which dates to the mid-1550s; the Ferapontov-Nativity Monastery's frescoes, painted in 1502 by Dionisy, one of Russia's greatest medieval painters; nineteenth-century log houses, both rustic and ornate; and the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Vologda, which was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the 1560s. The text that introduces the photographs outlines the region's significance to Russian history and culture. Brumfield is challenged by the immense difficulty of accessing the Russian North, and recounts traversing sketchy roads, crossing silt-clogged rivers on barges and ferries, improvising travel arrangements, being delayed by severe snowstorms, and seeing the region from the air aboard the small planes he needs to reach remote areas. The buildings Brumfield photographed, some of which lie in near ruin, are at constant risk due to local indifference and vandalism, a lack of maintenance funds, clumsy restorations, or changes in local and national priorities. Brumfield is concerned with their futures and hopes that the region's beautiful and vulnerable achievements of master Russian carpenters will be preserved. Architecture at the End of the Earth is at once an art book, a travel guide, and a personal document about the discovery of this bleak but beautiful region of Russia that most readers will see here for the first time.

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781101206355
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure of Khan written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanic explorers Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting clues to the mysterious treasure of Xanadu, the famed capital of Kublai Khan’s empire. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia’s Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt’s research vessel nearly sunk, it becomes clear this is no run of bad luck, but the influence of something, or someone, more sinister. In fact, Pitt and the NUMA crew have inadvertently stepped between a Mongolian tycoon and his plans to corner the global oil market, beginning with covert negotiations in China. To ensure the deal goes through, this mysterious businessman will encourage ever-escalating acts of sabotage and violence. Pitt and Giordino soon learn the magnate’s fury and his power both stem from the same source: a dark secret about Genghis Khan, the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. To Pitt and Giordino the famed Khan’s empire is nearly the stuff of legend and his tomb a forgotten mystery. But the Khan’s legacy is very real. And it’s the treasure of his grandson Kublai Khan that holds the key to stopping this modern-day oil baron from restoring the conquests of his ancestors. That is, if Pitt and Giordino get there first....

Author : Janet Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521548113
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure of the Land of Darkness written by Janet Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the medieval fur trade which stretched from western Europe to China.

Author : Ilya Vinkovetsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199930821
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian America written by Ilya Vinkovetsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.

Author : Tessa Murdoch
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781851777310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasures of the Royal Courts written by Tessa Murdoch and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Author : Mara Vorhees
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135570
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tsarina's Lost Treasure written by Mara Vorhees and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great. On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe’s most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures was The Nursery, an oak-paneled triptych by Leiden fine painter Gerrit Dou, Rembrandt’s most brilliant student and Holland’s first international superstar artist. Dou’s triptych was long the most beloved and most coveted painting of the Dutch Golden Age, and its loss in the shipwreck was mourned throughout the art world. Vrouw Maria, meanwhile, became a maritime legend, confounding would-be salvagers for more than two hundred years. In July 1999, a daring Finnish wreck hunter found Vrouw Maria, upright on the sea floor and perfectly preserved. The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure masterfully recounts the fascinating tale of Vrouw Maria—her loss and discovery—weaving together the rise and fall of the artist whose priceless masterpiece was the jewel of the wreckage. Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees bring to vivid life the personalities that drove (and are still driving) this compelling tale, evoking Robert Massie’s depiction of Russian high politics and culture, Simon Schama’s insights into Dutch Golden Age art and art history, Gary Kinder’s spirit of, danger and adventure on the beguiling Archipelago Sea.

Author : Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Treasures written by Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Myroslav Petriw
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459712110
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yaroslaw's Treasure written by Myroslav Petriw and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Yaroslaw leaves Canada for Ukraine to search for family heirlooms his grandparents buried during the Second World War, he has no inkling his personal explorations will draw him into a dangerous quest for Europe's greatest treasure, or that he will be caught up in the swirling intrigues of Ukraine's "Orange Revolution."