[PDF] A Portrait Of Tsarist Russia eBook

Author : Y. Barchatova
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781853780424

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For the first time since the Russian Revolution, the Soviet government has opened up its great photographic archives to the West. Here is the first selection from this treasure trove of photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia: from the archives of the Centre for Film and Photographic Archive, Leningrad; Central Archive for Russian Film and Photography, Krasnogorsk; State History Museum, Moscow; Leningrad Public Library; Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Museum, Leningrad and State Literature Museum, Moscow.

Author : Y. Barchatova
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394580319

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Photographs depict daily life in pre-Revolutionary Russia

Author : Olʹga Petrovna Semenova-Ti︠a︡n-Shanskai︠a︡
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 9780253347978

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Ò . . . a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution. . . . The translation is superb.Ó ÑSteven Hoch Ò . . . one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village. . . . a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry.Ó ÑSamuel C. Ramer Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women and children, SemyonovaÕs ethnography vividly describes courting rituals, marriage and sexual practices, childbirth, infanticide, child-rearing practices, the lives of women, food and drink, work habits, and the household economy. In contrast to a tradition of rosy, romanticized descriptions of peasant communities by Russian upper-class observers, Semyonova gives an unvarnished account of the harsh living conditions and often brutal relationships within peasant families.

Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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The worlds fascination with the Russian imperial family endures, and with this stunning book a new spotlight is added. "Jewels of the Tsars," the first book to examine the familys unparalleled collection, is illustrated with extraordinary photographs taken under special conditions at the Kremlins Diamond Fund, and accompanied by 18th- and 19th-century portraits and photographs of the Tsars, their families, and their court. Prince Michael of Greece, a Romanoff descendant, writes with an insiders knowledge of his familys passion for rare and beautiful jewels, and their place in the troubled history of Imperial Russia.

Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300119615

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What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.

Author : D. C. B. Lieven
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0670025585

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Originally published in Great Britain under the title Towards the flame: empire, war and the end of tsarist Russia.

Author : Herbert Bp. Bury
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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As one can surmise from the title, 'Russian Life Today' is a book where the author gives a glimpse of what life was like in Russia—which in this particular case, is done through the perspective of an American Assistant Bishop to the Bishop of London, holding a commission as bishop in charge of Anglican work in North and Central Europe. He was on duty there during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Author : Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9633863643

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This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.

Author : Lili Dehn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2017-09-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781976062100

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For Lili Dehn, who came to the last Russian Imperial Court as a young girl and who was destined to become one of the star-crossed Empress Alexandra's closest and most devoted confidantes, it was love at first sight: At last, advancing slowly through masses of greenery, came a tall and slender figure. It was the Empress. I looked at her, admiration in my heart and in my eyes. I had never imagined her to be half so fair and I shall never forget her beauty as I saw her on that July morning, although the Empress of many sorrows remains with me more as a moving and holy memory. She was dressed entirely in white, with a thin white veil draped round her hat. Her complexion was delicate, but when she was excited her cheeks were suffused with a faint rose flush. Her hair was reddish-gold, her eyes - those infinitely tragic eyes - were dark blue, and her figure was as supple as a willow wand. I remember that her pearls were magnificent and that diamond earrings flashed colored fires whenever she moved her head. She wore a simple little ring bearing the emblem of the Swastika, her favorite symbol - one that has given rise to so many conjectures and been quoted triumphantly as proof positive of her leanings toward the occult by those who are ignorant of what it really meant to her. On her escape to England after the Russian Revolution and after the execution of the Imperial Family, Lili became determined to tell the truth about Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra as she had known them over many years. To her certain knowledge, they had been among the kindest, the most decent and the most considerate of people imaginable, surrounded by a loving and devoted family. Those who said otherwise hadn't known them and had been systematically deceived by false rumors and relentless anti-Tsarist propaganda. It was time to set the record straight.