Author: George Green (merchant.)
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: George Green
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Author: George Green (merchant )
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ISBN: 9780461102277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: George Green
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267570621
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Excerpt from An Original Journal From London to St. Petersburgh, by Way of Sweden: And, Proceeding From Thence, to Moscow, Riga, Mittau, and Berlin; With a Description of the Post Towns, and Every Thing Interesting, in the Russian and Prussian Capitals, &C.; To Which Are Added, the Names, Distances and Price, of Each Post Though Our extensive connections with the North of Europe, and the united labours of several ingenious tra vellers, literary and commercial, have furnished the British public with a variety of splendid and costly volumes, descriptive of the interesting Empire 'of Russia, in which information and amusement are united, it was evident, nevertheless, that something was still wanting, calculated more for profit than mere amusement; something. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Ralph Griffiths
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Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Pages : 574

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Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.

Author: George Merchant Green
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Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Alison K. Smith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Alison K. Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption of food in Russia from the late eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. She focuses on the way that competing ideas based either in "traditional" Russian practice or in new practices from the "rational" West became the basis for Russians' understanding of themselves and their society. The Russians who participated in the process of self-definition were variously private authors and reformers or public servants of the Russian imperial state. Some had great success in creating a sense of themselves as ultimate authorities on a given topic. For example, a series of cookbook authors developed a system of writing Russian cookbooks in ways that borrowed from, but were still quite different from, foreign sources. Others found the process of mediating these ideas more difficult; agricultural reformers, in particular, sometimes found traditional practices, now deemed irrational, hard to eliminate. Recipes for Russia looks at the process of nation-building within the framework of the modern world—that is, it looks at the way individuals sought to define their nationality not only against outside influences but also by incorporating those outside influences into some coherent, yet national, whole. While Smith looks at food as part of Russian culture, she also connects it with the social, legal, and economic background that formed the culture, while examining the pre-reform period in significant detail. As a result, Recipes for Russia illuminates the great changes of this period, both in the food habits of Russians and in their views of themselves and of their nation.