The legacy of the Grand Princes and Tsars of Muscovy -- a tradition of strong governmental authority, the ... More »11. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History By Charles Halperin This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian...
The list of references includes: "Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps," by Anne Applebaum; "The Origins of Totalitarianism, " by Hannah Arendt; and "The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets," by Salo Baron.doi:10.1080/02619280802442670None...
After conquest by the Russian tsars in the 1800s and more than 70 years behind the USSR’s Iron Curtain, the “Stans” were also shrouded in mystery. No matter how many things I watched or read, there was still an appetite to find out for myself what these fa...
So when I learned that my Seabourn Ovation cruise would stop for two evenings in the former Russian capital, I hoped I could devote one of them to seeing a ballet at the theater where tsars once watched the Imperial Russian Ballet. Known during Soviet times as the Kirov, the theater was ...
29, 1879-1880 Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor, Op. 31, 1879-1884; adaptation of first three movements from string quartet of 1878-1879 Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, 1887, (Based mainly on Asturian traditional folk music themes) Scheherazade, Op. 35, symphonic suite, 1888 Russian ...
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Adam discovers that his father was one of Hermann Göring’s jailers at Nuremberg following the end of World War Two. He is further pointed in the direction of a safe deposit box in Switzerland where a precious Russian Orthodox icon made long ago for the Russian tsars was placed. The icon...