The Romanovs
1613-1918
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First American Edition.
Description: xxxiv, 744 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
"The acclaimed author of Young Stalin and Jerusalem gives readers an accessible, lively account--based in part on new archival material--of the extraordinary men and women who ruled Russia for three centuries,"--NoveList.
Contents:
ACT I: The Rise -- Scene 1: The Brideshows -- Scene 2: The Young Monk -- Scene 3: The Musketeers - Scene 4: The All-Drunken Synod -- ACT II: The Apogee -- Scene 1: The Emperor -- Scene 2: The Empresses -- Scene 3: Russian Venus -- Scene 4: The Golden Age -- Scene 5: The Conspiracy -- Scene 6: The Duel -- ACT III: The Decline -- Scene 1: Jupiter -- Scene 2: Liberator -- Scene 3: Colossus -- Scene 4: Master of the Land -- Scene 5: Catastrophe -- Scene 6: Emperor Michael II -- Scene 7: Afterlife -- Epilogue: Red tsars/white tsars.
Subjects:
Romanov, House of.
Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
Romanov, House of.
Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
ISBN:
9780307266521
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Europe Russia Seb | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
"This is a Borzoi Book."
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., a Hachette U.K. Company, London, in 2016"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-726) and index.
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., a Hachette U.K. Company, London, in 2016"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-726) and index.