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Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the tsars / Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
Van Pelt Library DK37.8.R6 V55 2011
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- 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- "Translation is from an unpublished manuscript"--T.p. verso.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
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