[PDF] Tutor To The Tsarevich eBook

Author : Frances Welch
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II in 1908 and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace. A demanding, fastidious man, he found the Romanovs bizarrely devout and insular. Yet he came to hold them all in deep affection.

Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108479340

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This revisionist history explores how the tsar's power was transferred in Russia over three centuries, as cultural practices and customs evolved.

Author : Peter J. S. Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134744773

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This unique work will be of great interest to those engaged in politics and Russian studies, as well as professionals dealing with Russia.

Author : Susanne Dunlap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599906759

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For Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia's last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia. But even while the rebels debate the family's future and the threat to their lives grows more menacing, romance blooms between Anastasia and Sasha, a sympathetic young guard she has known since childhood. But will the strength of their love be enough to save Anastasia from a violent death? Inspired by the mysteries that have long surrounded the last days of the Romanov family, Susanne Dunlap's new novel is a haunting vision of the life-and love story-of Russia's last princess.

Author : Jack V. Haney
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496802756

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Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This second volume of 140 tales continues the work started in Volume I, also published by University Press of Mississippi. A third planned volume will complete the first English-language set. The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best-known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection, he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes; a collection of mildly obscene tales, Russkie zavetnye skazki; and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were stylistic, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included in this volume.