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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461824503321

Autore

Moss Walter

Titolo

Russia in the age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky / / Walter G. Moss [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-283-37864-7

9786613378644

0-85728-831-8

0-85728-763-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies

Disciplina

947.08/1

Soggetti

Russia History Alexander II, 1855-1881

Russia Intellectual life 1801-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An Emperor's Funeral, 1855 -- Lieutenant Tolstoy in the Crimea -- The Tsar Visits Moscow -- A Professor and a Banquet -- Tolstoy in the Capital -- The Tsar, the Serfs and the Coronation -- Dostoevsky in Exile -- Michael Bakunin -- The Muravievs and Perovskys, Siberia and China -- Two Noblemen: Tolstoy and Turgenev -- Herzen and The Bell in London -- Tolstoy and Bakunin visit Herzen -- Turgenev and Dostoevsky visit Herzen -- A Fateful Year, 1866 -- Nekrasov and Muraviev the Hangman -- The Perovskys and Herzen in Geneva -- Dostoevsky and Anna Snitkina -- Professor Soloviev and his Family -- Tolstoy: a Marriage and a Masterpiece -- A Shot in Paris -- Turgenev and Dostoevsky in Baden-Baden -- The Dostoevskys in Geneva -- Nechaev, Bakunin and the Last Days of Herzen -- The Tsar Visits London, 1874 -- Dostoevsky in Bad Ems -- Sophia Perovskaya, Radicalism and the Russian People -- A Mystic in the Desert -- The Tsar at the Front -- The Death of Nekrasov -- A Visit to a Monastery -- Tolstoy Apologizes -- "Prophet, Prophet": Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech -- A Death and a Marriage -- Two Conspirators -- Bombs and Blood -- The Trial -- Two Appeals -- A Spectacle on Semenovsky Square.

Sommario/riassunto

A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of



history.