Danilevski (177 results)

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Geschichte Des Krieges Russland Mit Frankreich . Book.

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Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bueno. 181 pp/ Biblioteca Freya/ Traducción directa del ruso por Boyan Markoff/ Firma de anterior propietario / R32-2.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 318 pages. Scarce title. Orange cloth, faded and sunned in places, spine worn and slightly discolored with dullness to gilt title. Front hinge cracked, and page edges slightly darkened. No dust jacket. No marks, inscriptions or stamps. Record # 605887.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hbk, 318p. London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1917. Covers dulled and edges foxed, neat bookplate on rear pastedown o/w an unmarked copy in perfectly acceptable condition. [French invasion - Napoleon - Russian - Novel] g80 / m5117.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 318 pages, binding cracked a bit at pages 176/ 177. Cloth quite clean.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American edition, octavo, original brown cloth over boards, gilt stamped text on front cover and spine. From Russian historical novelist and Privy Councillor Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, translated from the original Russian by Angelo Solomon Rappoport. Very Good; light shelf wear to edges and spine ends.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. Russian language. 9.00x0.80x5.70 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. September 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armee has crossed Russia and fought its way to Moscow. Kutuzov has abandoned the city. The streets are nearly empty - 270,000 inhabitants gone in the space of days. On the night of September 14, as the French enter, fires break out across the city. By September 18, two-thirds of Moscow is ash.Grigory Danilevsky's Moscow in Flames (1886) follows Aurora Kramahn through the catastrophe of the French occupation and the burning of the ancient capital - through streets emptied of everything familiar, through a city that has been deliberately sacrificed, through the weeks Napoleon spent waiting in the ruins for a peace offer from Tsar Alexander that never came. Around Aurora he assembles the full range of people caught in the disaster: those who fled and those who stayed, those who acted on principle and those who simply survived, witnesses to one of the decisive events of the century.The fire itself remains disputed history. Count Rostopchin, Moscow's military governor, disbanded the fire brigade and removed its equipment before evacuating; captured arsonists confessed to acting on his orders; Rostopchin denied it all. Napoleon watched from the Kremlin and called it an act of extraordinary Russian self-sacrifice. The debate has not been settled in two hundred years. What Danilevsky understood - writing in 1886, with Tolstoy's War and Peace already standing as the epic treatment of the same events - was that the disaster had a human interior that the philosophical epic could not entirely contain. His novel works at the level of individual experience: what it is to be inside a city that is burning, occupied by a foreign army that has marched from Paris and finds nothing left to conquer.Danilevsky brought to this subject an archival novelist's commitment to documentary specificity, shaped by years of examining provincial records across Russia and Ukraine as a civil servant. The result was, by contemporary accounts, his most popular work - a historical novel in the tradition that Russian writers had adapted from Walter Scott, whose strengths lie in narrative urgency, historical texture, and the insistence that great events are always, beneath their strategic surfaces, the sum of what individual people endured. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Unfolding in the historical tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, this book masterfully recreates the electrifying atmosphere of Moscow on the brink of invasion. Through the intertwined lives of its characters, the author explores the complex panorama of Russian society at this turning point in history. The book delves deep into the era's social and political landscape, capturing the fears, aspirations, and fierce patriotism of the time. It presents a nuanced examination of the Napoleonic Wars' impact on Russian society and the profound choices individuals had to make in the face of national crisis. With its gripping narrative and insightful portrayal of a pivotal moment in history, the author offers a rich and evocative perspective on Russia's past, making this book an enlightening read for enthusiasts of historical fiction and those interested in the intricacies of human experience during war. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - September 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armée has crossed Russia and fought its way to Moscow. Kutuzov has abandoned the city. The streets are nearly empty - 270,000 inhabitants gone in the space of days. On the night of September 14, as the French enter, fires break out across the city. By September 18, two-thirds of Moscow is ash.Grigory Danilevsky's Moscow in Flames (1886) follows Aurora Kramahn through the catastrophe of the French occupation and the burning of the ancient capital - through streets emptied of everything familiar, through a city that has been deliberately sacrificed, through the weeks Napoleon spent waiting in the ruins for a peace offer from Tsar Alexander that never came. Around Aurora he assembles the full range of people caught in the disaster: those who fled and those who stayed, those who acted on principle and those who simply survived, witnesses to one of the decisive events of the century.The fire itself remains disputed history. Count Rostopchin, Moscow's military governor, disbanded the fire brigade and removed its equipment before evacuating; captured arsonists confessed to acting on his orders; Rostopchin denied it all. Napoleon watched from the Kremlin and called it an act of extraordinary Russian self-sacrifice. The debate has not been settled in two hundred years. What Danilevsky understood - writing in 1886, with Tolstoy's War and Peace already standing as the epic treatment of the same events - was that the disaster had a human interior that the philosophical epic could not entirely contain. His novel works at the level of individual experience: what it is to be inside a city that is burning, occupied by a foreign army that has marched from Paris and finds nothing left to conquer.Danilevsky brought to this subject an archival novelist's commitment to documentary specificity, shaped by years of examining provincial records across Russia and Ukraine as a civil servant. The result was, by contemporary accounts, his most popular work - a historical novel in the tradition that Russian writers had adapted from Walter Scott, whose strengths lie in narrative urgency, historical texture, and the insistence that great events are always, beneath their strategic surfaces, the sum of what individual people endured.

Condition: New.

Tapa Blanda. Condition: BUEN ESTADO. Rústica editorial ilustrada. coleccion oasis nş 103. PRIMERA EDICION. 64pgs Size: 19x15cm.

Condition: New. In.

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Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 370 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover a bit soiled. Small circular blind stamp to front endpaper and first page corner.

Hardcover, cloth. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. First American Edition. FIRST American Edition in publisher's original Hardcover binding, blue silky cloth boards with gilt design on front board, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edges. Binding is sound. Frontispiece. Illustrated with four portraits throughout. Blue endpapers. Clean, unmarked, light pages. Previous owner's decorative signature inked on front end paper, dated 1903. Shelf wear on edges with bumped corners; fraying/tears on spine crown and tail; Back hinge netting visible in gutter. Front free endpaper bears previous owner's signatures and brief manuscript notations, consistent with early ownership; no known association or attribution identified. A fictionalized biography; historical fiction translated from the Russian of G.P. Danilevski by Ida de Mouchanoff. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1891. More pictures on request and with our pleasure. Book will be carefully wrapped and boxed securely for safe handling during transit. We ship internationally. [Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Hard Cover] 252 pp.

Condition: New. pp. 68.

Condition: New. pp. 68 424:B&W 5.83 x 8.27 in or 210 x 148 mm (A5) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam.