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Cargando... Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandrapor Peter Kurth, Peter Christopher (Fotógrafo)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very beautiful. ( ) This book provides a wonderful visual glimpse into the last years of Imperial Russia. The photography evokes a sense of otherness as if the world is fiction rather than history. This is a good adult companion to Anastasia's Album. The photography is comprised of a lot of the personal daily photos of the Romanov's and allows for an intimate view into their world. This lovely coffee table sized book contains hundreds of archival photographs taken by Nicholas and his family, as well as modern day shots of many of the residences and other locations related to the tsar. The text focuses on the personalities of Nicholas and Alexandra, the out of touch nature of Nicholas’ rule, and the tragic imprisonment and execution of the royal family. Not particularly well-researched, the text should serve as an embellishment to the photos, not as an authoritative history. But the beautiful photographs make the book well worth picking up, even if only to browse for an afternoon. A behemoth of a book entailing the life and death of the last Tsar of Russia and his family. This book was fascinating and very educational. Despite the heavy subject matter, Kurth writes history in a very accessible way and for me it was a great chance to learn more about a period and family in history that I have always been interested in. It is not a quick read but I found myself picking it up every night after dinner and devouring chapters at a time with ease. I especially appreciated the insight into the early years of Nicholas and Alexandra, how they met, and just how incredibly deep their love for each other and their family was. For anybody fascinated with Russia, this is a great volume to just flick through let alone read from cover to cover as I did. You will still learn quite a bit just at a glance. A great read. If you only have time to read one book regarding The Romanovs, Russian history, and the Russian revolution, this should be the one! Lush in photography, rich in detail, stunningly organized and exquisitely written, this is a gem which chronicles the opulence of the Romanovis and vividly contrasts this to the brutal massacre that ended their lives and the rule of the Tsars of Russia. The author and photographer show the before and after of the lush tranquility of summer and winter palaces and of yachts and compare this with the captivity of the royal family at Ekaterinburg and their murder in the basement of the "house of special purpose". I've read a lot of Russian history, yet this book contained tidbits I didn't know. For example, the precursor and ominous signs which pointed to a doomed ending were rife from the beginning. The shabbily erected accommodations for the populous during the coronation celebration left hundreds dead and trampled as peasants fought for souvenir mugs and beer and wine to fill them. Knowing this event had occurred, still, the fantastic over-the-top coronation ball occurred, leaving a very bad perception from the start. Warned of Alexandra's dangerous obsession with the mad monk Rasputin, Nicholas passively ignored the possible repercussion. Involvement in WWI was disastrous as once again Nicholas' passivity and lack of leadership played a major role in the downfall of him and his family. Hiding his son Alexi's hemophilia from those who could have had sympathy again proved an inability to judge the masses. I highly recommend this coffee table style book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"This splendidly illustrated volume evokes the world of pre-revolutionary Russia on every page and tells the story of the last Romanovs as never before. Peter Kurth, author of Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson, recreates the private life of the imperial family with great clarity and new insights. He begins the story in 1913, a year of celebrations marking 300 years of Romanov rule, but also the last year before the onset of the Great War, which would bring a shattering end to the dynasty. From there he returns to the childhoods of Nicholas and Alexandra and follows them through their courtship, marriage and coronation to the Siberian cellar where their lives ended." "The narrative is effectively complemented by archival images from the imperial family's personal albums and private collections, many of them never before published, matched with present-day color photographs of the palaces and places the Romanovs knew. A special visual section, The Imperial Year, documents the family in their palace outside St. Petersburg, at their seaside retreat in the Crimea, on board the royal yacht in the Gulf of Finland and visiting their hunting lodge at Spala, deep in the forests of Poland." "Photographer Peter Christopher also followed the path of the imperial family, and his color photographs range from the splendors of Tsarskoe Selo to the remains of "The House of Special Purpose" in Ekaterinburg. The many questions still surrounding the murders that took place in that house are examined by Peter Kurth, and in the book's final chapter he details the recent discovery of the Romanov bones and the DNA tests used to determine their authenticity. The fascinating saga of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Anastasia, the tsar's youngest daughter, is also included along with a candid picture of the Russian aristocracy in exile."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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