This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were running swiftly, the surface stability of the Tsarist regime show no indication of the turmoil ahead.The author, who is perhaps best known for his biography Tolstoy, describes Russian life through the eyes of a fictional young Englishman visiting a prosperous Russian merchant family. All facets of Moscow life are covered, from entertainment and night life to family life and the devotions of the Orthodox. We learn about Russia's factory workers and peasants, its soldiers and lawyers, its priests and its city officials, its Tsar and his entourage: what they do and what they wear, what they think and what they dream. Concluding chapters take our visitor to the famous fair at Nizhny-Novgorod, which was held every year from July 15 to September 10, and on a boat trip down the Volga.

Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar.

History

HENRI TROYAT

Russia

Macmillan Pub. Co.

1974, Hardcover with dust jacket, 489 pages

Gogol: The biography of a divided soul

Allen And Unwin

Tolstoy (Penguin Literary Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Chekhov

Fawcett Columbine

La neige en deuil

Flammarion

Divided soul: The life of Gogol

Minerva Press

First American Edition, 1973, first printing, a like-new unread,unworn, unopened, unmarked hardcover, with an unclipped ($12.95) dust jacket has slight chipping at the top spine end and a small nick on the top front edge about the middle, from Doubleday. By Henri Troyat. 489 pages with index. ISBN 0-385-05190.5.

Divided soul;: The life of Gogol

DOUBLEDAY

Ivan the Terrible

Europe

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

<p>An in-depth portrait of a Russian literary genius explores the darker side of Turgenev's privileged childhood--the impoverished lives around him and a violent mother--which resulted in both a compassionate nature and a compulsion to be dominated</p>

Turgenev: A Biography by the Author of Chekhov

Dutton

Catherine the Great

E. Read

Community & Culture

Panther

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