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Cargando... Miguel y Natashapor Donald Crawford, Donald Crawford (Autor), Rosemary Crawford (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Too much quoting of their repetitive love letters. ( ) An historical drama, a biography, a love story, a tragedy, a compelling thriller in one superbly written account of the last days of the Romanov dynasty. A superb read, which I would recommend to anyone. It provided an insight into the events that changed the world, evoking both outrage towards and sympathy for the two main characters...a roller-coaster of emotions. A brilliant adventure! A dual biography of Grand Duke Michael and his wife Natasha - he was the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, and was legally Tsar for a day, March 3, 1917. Their marriage was an enormous scandal - Natasha was a divorced woman of much lower legal status, and she was never accepted by other members of the royal family. In particular, the Dowager Empress Marie was adamantly opposited to the match - she was apparently the Queen Mary of her generation. The authors, Rosemary and Donald Crawford, do an excellent job of bringing out the tragic romance behind their union - the tumultuous circumstances of the Russian Revolution separated them, and Michael was murdered by his Bolshevik prison guards in the early summer of 1918. Natasha was also arrested by the Cheka, but she managed to escape to the west. Forced into a vagabond exile in London and Paris, she was depressed as only Russians can be depressed, never forgetting her halycon love, and struggling to pay her bills. She died forgotten and alone in a pauper's hospital in Paris in 1952. I like these royal biographies - evidence of the mutability of human existence, good reminders not to take happiness for granted. Nice summer reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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El Gran Duque Miguel Alexandrovich era hermano del zar Nicolas II, mientras que Natasha Wulfert, extraordinariamente bella, no solo era plebeya sino que se habia divorciado de su primer marido para casarse con un oficial. Fue entonces cuando conocio al Gran Duque. Amor a primera vista, causa de desgracias, humillaciones y, finalmente, de exilio. Segun un admirador de Natasha: 'Por una mujer como ella, un hombre puede olvidar y abandonar todo'.Los mismos protagonistas narran su historia en cientos de cartas que revelan tanto su alegria como su desesperacion al ser considerados criminales. Pero describen tambien el final de una epoca, la primera guerra mundial, el heroismo en el frente y los acontecimientos que provocaron la caida del Zar y su abdicacion a favor de Miguel, el ultimo Romanov que fuera proclamado emperador.Basada en diarios privados, cartas y documentos hasta ahora ocultos en los archivos de la ex Union Sovietica, esta obra brinda una fascinante vision sobre la vida durante la revolucion y los acontecimientos que condenarian al pueblo ruso a setenta anos de tirania. Miguel y Natasha es un libro maravilloso, un emocionante drama historico y, finalmente, una terrible tragedia en la que la realidad supera a la ficcion. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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