The Russian Nobility In The Age Of Alexander I

Author : Patrick O’Meara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788315678

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The Russian Nobility in the Age of Alexander I by Patrick O’Meara Pdf

The reign of Alexander I was a pivotal moment in the construction of Russia's national mythology. This work examines this crucial period focusing on the place of the Russian nobility in relation to their ruler, and the accompanying debate between reform and the status quo, between a Russia old and new, and between different visions of what Russia could become. Drawing on extensive archival research and placing a long-neglected emphasis on this aspect of Alexander I's reign, this book is an important work for students and scholars of imperial Russia, as well as the wider Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period in Europe.

Author : Patrick O'Meara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1788315685

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The Russian Nobility in the Age of Alexander I by Patrick O'Meara Pdf

"The reign of Alexander I was a pivotal moment in the construction of Russia's national mythology. This work examines this crucial period focusing on the place of the Russian nobility in relation to their ruler, and the accompanying debate between reform and the status quo, between a Russia old and new, and between different visions of what Russia could become. Drawing on extensive archival research and placing a long-neglected emphasis on this aspect of Alexander I's reign, this book is an important work for students and scholars of imperial Russia, as well as the wider Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period in Europe."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Paul Dukes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobility by Paul Dukes Pdf

Author : Alexander Mikhailovich
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528766739

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Once A Grand Duke by Alexander Mikhailovich Pdf

Former Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovic of Russia presents his memoirs and his reflections on the downfall of the Romanov family in this enlightening account of the final fifty years of the Russian Empire. The author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in the Caucuses and explains how he turned away from his expected role within the army in favour of serving in the navy. He describes his visits to South Africa, America and Europe and we see the headstrong Duke’s love of the outdoors. When his cousin becomes Tsar Nicholas II, Alexander Mikhailovic must play a part in the government and the reader is given an inside perspective of the running of the Russian Empire. His distorted perspective of autocracy is presented unapologetically and his opinions are often hypocritical. His hatred of the liberals who were responsible for the deaths of many of his friends and family members is unsurprising, but is contradicted by his own liberal ideas and rebellion against the Orthodox Church. This volume’s contents include: - Our Friends of December the Fourteenth - A Grand Duke is Born - My First War - An Emperor in Love - A Grand Duke Comes of Age - My Relatives - Millions That Were - Nicholas II Read & Co. History is proud to have republished this unique account of the last fifty years of the Russian empire and the events leading up to the fated February Revolution. Not to be missed by those with an interest in Russian history and the Romanov dynasty.

Author : Gary M. Hamburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009164602

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Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881-1905 by Gary M. Hamburg Pdf

Author : Douglas Smith
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466827752

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Former People by Douglas Smith Pdf

Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries'-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Yet Former People is also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called "former people" and "class enemies"—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on. Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith, Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia's most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.

Author : Seymour Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0875805396

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Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia by Seymour Becker Pdf

The transformation of the Russian nobility between 1861 and 1914 has often been attributed to the anachronistic attitudes of its members and their failure to adapt to social change. Becker challenges this idea of "the decline of the nobility." He argues that the privileged estate responded positively to change and greatly influenced their nation's political and economic destiny.

Author : Timothy F. Boettger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965133095

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The Natural Children of the Russian Nobility by Timothy F. Boettger Pdf

Author : Marc Raeff
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035166466

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Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia by Marc Raeff Pdf

Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.

Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743284264

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Alexander II by Edvard Radzinsky Pdf

Profiles the Romanov Dynasty tsar as one of Russia's most forward-thinking rulers, documenting his efforts to redefine history by bringing freedom to his country, and describing the series of assassination attempts that eventually ended his life.

Author : Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609092412

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On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825 by Andreas Schönle,Andrei Zorin Pdf

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825, Andreas Schönle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of Europeanization for Russian elites in their daily lives, through the import of material culture, the adoption of certain social practices, travel, reading patterns, and artistic consumption. The authors consider five major sites of Europeanization: court culture, religion, education, literature, and provincial life. The Europeanization of the Russian elite paradoxically strengthened its pride in its Russianness, precisely because it participated in networks of interaction and exchange with European elites and shared in their linguistic and cultural capital. In this way, Europeanization generated forms of sociability that helped the elite consolidate its corporate identity as distinct from court society and also from the people. The Europeanization of Russia was uniquely intense, complex, and pervasive, as it aimed not only to emulate forms of behavior, but to forge an elite that was intrinsically European, while remaining Russian. The second of a two-volume project (the first is a multi-authored collection of case studies), this insightful study will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and East European history and culture, as well as those interested in transnational processes.

Author : Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,Nicole Svobodny,Ludmilla A. Trigos
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810119710

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Under the Sky of My Africa by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,Nicole Svobodny,Ludmilla A. Trigos Pdf

A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.

Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Russia
ISBN : UCSC:32106014238213

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A Social History of the Russian Empire 1650-1825 by Janet M. Hartley Pdf

This is a major and wide-ranging survey of the social history of Russia from before Peter the Great right through to Napoleon.

Author : Sergei Antonov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674972612

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Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia by Sergei Antonov Pdf

As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks.

Author : David Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317872573

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Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881 by David Saunders Pdf

This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the French Revolution. Why, despite so much effort, did it fail? This is a superb book, both as a portrait of an age and as a piece of sustained historical analysis.