The lives of the tsars and their subjects from 1855 to 1918, told through rare archival photographs
The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the world’s great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsar’s gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers, and the rural poor: a continent of contradictions from abject poverty to fairy-tale wealth captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Philipp Blom’s publications include A Wicked Company and The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914.
Veronica Buckley is the author of Queen Christina and Madame de Maintenon.
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