"Translation is from an unpublished manuscript"--T.p. verso. "Published in ... Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto"--T.p. verso. "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The first Romanovs : from Tsar Mikhail to Peter I -- Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov -- Catherine the Great and the culture of her era -- Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky -- Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and young Pushkin -- Nicholas I and Pushkin -- Lermontov and Briullov -- Gogol, Ivanov, Tyutchev and the end of the Nicholas I era -- Alexander II, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky -- Herzen, Tolstoy, and the women's issue -- Tchaikovsky and homosexuality in imperial Russia -- Dostoevsky and the Romanovs -- Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky -- Nicholas II and Lenin as art connoisseurs.
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