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Moscow A Traveller's Reader
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Description: Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again but with each rebuilding it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed it seemed that two more were built. In this evocative and fascinating anthology Moscow's turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great's bloody reprisals after the revolt of the streltsy in 1698; a visit to the city's brothels by medical students in the 1890s; Kutuzov abandoning Moscow to Napoleon in 1812, and Napoleon's ignominious retreat from the burning city; Pushkin railing against the mindlessness of 1830 society; the flowering of literary greatness in the ninenteenth century and of the Moscow Art Theatre in the twentieth; and the dazzling profusion of jewels in the Treasury of the Kremlin. These and many other milestones in over seven hundred years of history are brought vividly to life.
Title: Moscow A Traveller's Reader
Author(s): Kelly Laurence
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472137142
Pages: 352 Pages, 8 Pp Plate Section
Publication Date: 6/2/2016
Category: Travel Writing
Description: Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again but with each rebuilding it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed it seemed that two more were built. In this evocative and fascinating anthology Moscow's turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great's bloody reprisals after the revolt of the streltsy in 1698; a visit to the city's brothels by medical students in the 1890s; Kutuzov abandoning Moscow to Napoleon in 1812, and Napoleon's ignominious retreat from the burning city; Pushkin railing against the mindlessness of 1830 society; the flowering of literary greatness in the ninenteenth century and of the Moscow Art Theatre in the twentieth; and the dazzling profusion of jewels in the Treasury of the Kremlin. These and many other milestones in over seven hundred years of history are brought vividly to life.
Title: Moscow A Traveller's Reader
Author(s): Kelly Laurence
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781472137142
Pages: 352 Pages, 8 Pp Plate Section
Publication Date: 6/2/2016
Category: Travel Writing