Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the tsars / Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volkov, Solomon.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Romanov, House of--History.

Romanov, House of.

Romanov, House of--Art patronage.

Arts, Russian.

History.

Artists.

Art patronage.

Russia--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Russia.

Kings and rulers.

Authors, Russian--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Artists--Russia--Biography.

Composers--Russia--Biography.

Composers.

Arts, Russian--History.

Russia--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Russia--History--1613-1917.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 2011.

Contents:

The first Romanovs : from Tsar Mikhail to Peter I

Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov

Catherine the Great and the culture of her era

Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky

Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and young Pushkin

Nicholas I and Pushkin

Lermontov and Briullov

Gogol, Ivanov, Tyutchev and the end of the Nicholas I era

Alexander II, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky

Herzen, Tolstoy, and the women's issue

Tchaikovsky and homosexuality in imperial Russia

Dostoevsky and the Romanovs

Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky

Nicholas II and Lenin as art connoisseurs.

Notes:

"Translation is from an unpublished manuscript"--T.p. verso.

"Published in ... Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto"--T.p. verso.

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780307270634

0307270637

OCLC:

635461178