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The stolen prince : Gannibal, adopted son of Peter the Great, great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's first black intellectual / Hugh Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Hugh, 1963-
- Standardized Title:
- Gannibal
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gannibal, Abram Petrovich, 1697?-1781.
- Gannibal, Abram Petrovich.
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.
- Russia. Armii͡a.
- Generals--Russia--Biography.
- Generals.
- Africans.
- Families.
- Russia.
- Russia. Armii︠a︡--Biography.
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837--Family.
- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich.
- Africans--Russia--Biography.
- Russia--History--Peter I, 1689-1725.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Gannibal, adopted son of Peter the Great, great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's first black intellectual
- Place of Publication:
- New York : ECCO, [2006]
- Summary:
- In 1703, a seven-year-old African boy in chains stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople. He claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia and was rescued by Peter the Great. Under the tsar's tutelage, he soared to dizzying heights. This is the extraordinary story of an African slave who became slave-owner and one of the 18th century's most astonishing characters.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 2005 as Gannibal : the Moor of Petersburg, by Profile Books"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0066212650
- OCLC:
- 62282404
- Publisher Number:
- 9780066212654
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