Farquhar Michael Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia 9780812979053

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Автор: Farquhar Michael
Название: Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Перевод названия: Майкл Фаргухар:
ISBN: 9780812979053
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

История Европы

История раннего нового времени: с 1450/1500 гг. по 1700 г.

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

ISBN-10: 0812979052
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 368
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 08.07.2014
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Family tree
Размер: 203 x 132 x 19
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Three centuries of autocracy, debauchery, betrayal, murder, and madness from romanov russia
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality. In this incredibly entertaining history, Michael Farquhar collects the best, most captivating true tales of Romanov iniquity. We meet Catherine the Great, with her endless parade of virile young lovers (none of them of the equine variety); her unhinged son, Paul I, who ordered the bones of one of his mother’s paramours dug out of its grave and tossed into a gorge; and Grigori Rasputin, the “Mad Monk,” whose mesmeric domination of the last of the Romanov tsars helped lead to the monarchy’s undoing. From Peter the Great’s penchant for personally beheading his recalcitrant subjects (he kept the severed head of one of his mistresses pickled in alcohol) to Nicholas and Alexandra’s brutal demise at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Secret Lives of the Tsars captures all the splendor and infamy that was Imperial Russia.

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia, Farquhar Michael