The story of Russia--a vast empire straddling Europe and Asia across a never-ending plain--is dark, enigmatic and tangled, and rife with paradox and mystery. In The Russian Chronicles the people themselves speak out and tell the story of this troubled land from its beginning to the 1917 Revolution, which marked the beginning of the Soviet state. Their voices are recorded in chronicles etched on parchment in distant monasteries, and in the hidden wisdom of folk song; in private letters from refugees and immigrants as well as official reports from far-flung governors seeking to bring Russian ways to Eastern provinces; and in letters and notes from writers who brought their culture from the past into the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I knew I had to pick buy this after I flipped through it at a book store. I have been half-heartedly searching for a couple years now for a book about Russian history that didn't focus on the 1917 revolution and the Cold War. Also, it's full of illustrations and sidebar articles that bring this subject to life. Just for interest reading, this book has been fascinating. From the Kievan Rus to the St. Petersburg czars, and all the interesting stuff in between like the Mongol invasions and Ivan the Terrible, is in here. It's a good light read, because it's not in lengthy novel form. It's my coffee table book.
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Rus (a term used anciently both of the land and its people) was a political entity that arose in the ninth century and quickly established itself over a large part of what are no Russia, the Ukraine and Belorussia, to become the largest early medieval European state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Peter the Great, Primary Chronicle, Prince Vasily, Mother of God, Winter Palace, Batu Khan, Boris Godunov, Orthodox Church, Black Sea, Empress Elizabeth, Golden Horde, Tsar Fyodor, Tsar Ivan, Vladimir Monomakh, Mikhail Fyodorovich, Catherine the Great, Grand Prince Dimitri, Ivan Naryshkin, Monastery of the Caves, Prince Fyodor, Tsar Alexander, Tsar Boris, Mackenzie Wallace, Prince Alexander, Prince Igor New!
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Rus (a term used anciently both of the land and its people) was a political entity that arose in the ninth century and quickly established itself over a large part of what are no Russia, the Ukraine and Belorussia, to become the largest early medieval European state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grand prince, most gracious sovereign, new tsar, countless treasure, great sovereign, land captains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter the Great, Primary Chronicle, Prince Vasily, Mother of God, Winter Palace, Batu Khan, Boris Godunov, Orthodox Church, Black Sea, Empress Elizabeth, Golden Horde, Tsar Fyodor, Tsar Ivan, Vladimir Monomakh, Mikhail Fyodorovich, Catherine the Great, Grand Prince Dimitri, Ivan Naryshkin, Monastery of the Caves, Prince Fyodor, Tsar Alexander, Tsar Boris, Mackenzie Wallace, Prince Alexander, Prince Igor New!
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- Nutcracker Suite in Full Score (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky on page 330, and page 338
- ST. PETERSBURG by Rose Baring on page 329, and Back Matter
- Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol on page 272, and Back Matter
- Ruslan and Ludmilla: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin on page 334, and page 338
- Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin on page 120, and page 334
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- History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 by Dale T. Irvin on page 376
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