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Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia: Oh, ...
Catherine II (Empress of Russia)Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership.
Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of ...
PreviewOn May 29, 1914, the Empress of Ireland sank on the St. Lawrence River. The author delves into the lives of his grandparents, who went down with the ship.
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia
Matthew DennisonEmpress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia.
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and ...
PreviewThe first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress.
Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, ...
Ray TarasBringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West.
Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing period (1644-1912)
Library of Congress. Orientalia DivisionHsiao-ch'uan, Empress, 378, *933 HSIAO-CHUANG [WEN HUANG-HOU], 255, 258, 300, 301, »891 Hsiao Fu-ssQ, 463 Hsiao-ho, Empress, *968 Hsiao-hsien, Empress, 6, 254, 372, 681 HSIAO-HSIEN HUANG-HOU, 248, 257, 801.
The Second Empress
Michelle MoranEmpress Josephine's family has been called to Napoleon's court for the terrible news that he intends to divorce his barren wife of thirteen years and take a younger bride, the Austrian Princess Marie-Louise.
Russia in Search of Itself
James H. BillingtonThe Librarian of Congress and author of The Face of Russia takes a close-up look at one of the world's most pressing issues, the turbulent conditions of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the efforts of Russia to find a post ...
Empress Bianca
Lady Colin CampbellFollow Empress Bianca from her earliest days as a middle-class housewife in post-war Mexico as she lies, cheats, schemes and seduces her way to the top.
With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of ...
Catherine O'NeilThis book will help English readers understand better what it means to say Pushkin is 'the Shakespeare of Russia.' Catherine O'Neil is Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Denver.
Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
Catherine MerridaleMore than an absorbing history of Russia's most famous landmark, Red Fortress uses the Kremlin as a unique lens, bringing into focus the evolution of Russia's culture and the meaning of its politics.
Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty: Becoming the Only Female ...
Jong Min RheeJo-Shui Chen also presents the changes of lengthening the mourning period for mothers and the change of the imperial consorts' titles as additional evidence of Empress Wu's feminism.114 However, I think that attendance at Feng Shan ...
A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
PreviewHe also highlighted the apparent importance of the empress Maria of Antioch, the wife of Manuel I, who supported the pro-Latin factions and was perhaps the patron of the book (the empress is shown as large on fol. 7r).16 Maria Parani ...
Ganglands: Russia: Russia
Ross KempTrojan Industries are in Russia and there's a new gang in their sights.
The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of ...
Brigitte HamannFirst published in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's definitive biography tells Elisabeth's story from her birth into Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist.
Russia's Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber, and Maritime ...
R. ManessRussia's place in the world as a powerful regional actor can no longer be denied; the question that remains concerns what this means in terms of foreign policy and domestic stability for the actors involved in the situation, as Russia comes ...
Savage frontier: rangers, riflemen, and Indian wars in Texas
Stephen L. MooreNeyland, James. Palestine (Texas): A History. Palestine: Empress Books. Nichols , James W. Now You Hear My Horn. The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820- 1887. McDowell, Catherine W., Ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.
Russia After the Cold War
Mike BowkerIn Russia after the Cold War the editors provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the state of Russia at the end of the twentieth century, as it seeks to come to terms with its new status in the world community, the pressures and ...
Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
William C. FullerWilliam C. Fuller. In the first place, Nicholas believed that Russia could really afford to fight only localized wars. Russia might of course operate with the assistance of allies, but at all costs it had to avoid entering a war in which a coalition of ...
Building Bridges Among the BRICs
Robert CraneRobert Crane. 2. Russia. Jerome. Dumetz. and. Anna. Vichniakova. Introduction. Russia is apoweroriented society. Throughout all its history, power hasbeen the key to understanding Russia. From veryearly times when the Kievan Rus' ...
A Conflict of Three Cultures: Germans from Russia in America ...
Herman RoemmichPhilip Karl Roemmich left Edenkoben, Germany for Russia in 1908. He settled in Worms, Russia. His descendant, Jacob Roemmich, born in 1854 immigrated to the U.S. in 1910 and settled in North Dakota.
A History of Russia
Roger BartlettRoger Bartlett traces the history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Russia, through the Muscovite and Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to the end of the twentieth century.
ATH: OCR A Historical Themes: Russia and its rulers ...
Andrew HollandWalter G. Moss, A History of Russia. Volume I: To 191 7, 2nd edn, Anthem Press 2003. Walter G. Moss, A History of Russia. Volume II: Since 1855, 2nd edn, Anthem Press 2005. Peter Oxley, Russia 1855-1991: From T sars to Commissars, ...
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
Catherine Merridale99. 32. S. Bartenev,LeGrandPalais duKremlin et sesneuf églises: Guidedu ( Moscow, 1912), p.11. 33. Cited in Jeremy Howard,Christopher Galloway: Clockmaker, Architect and Engineer to Tsar Mikhail, the FirstRomanov ( Edinburgh, 1997), p.
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia
Catherine MerridaleThe First World War, the civil war of 1918-23, the state-created famine of the 30s, the great purges and the vast sacrifice of the war against Hitler: these are only the most significant chapters in an epic of destruction.
Russia in Transition
Frank ColumbusThis book studies the wide array of dilemmas facing Russia both domestically and internationally.
Early exploration of Russia
Marshall PoeThis collection brings together the most important ethnographic accounts of Russia from the period 1500 to 1700.
Catherine Booth: Laying the Theological Foundations of a ...
John Read15 Norman Murdoch and Ann Woodall conclude from this that Catherine's commitment to social action was compromised at best.16 In his novel Whitechapel, Ian Porter gives Catherine's words to a sarcastic critic who despises the Army ...
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