Author: Charles François Philibert Masson
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg
Author: Charles François Philibert Masson
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg: particularly towards the end of the reign of Catharine II, and the commencement of that of Paul I. Forming a description of the manners of Petersburg at the close of the eighteenth century: and containing various anecdotes ... Together with remarks on the education of the Grand-Dukes, the manners of the ladies, and the religion of the people. Translated from the French [i.e. from “Mémoires secrets sur la Russie” by C. F. P. Masson].
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Secret memoirs of the court of Petersburg [by C.F.P. Masson]. Tr. [from Mémoires secrets sur la Russie].
Author: Charles François P. Masson
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Secret Memoirs of the Court of St. Petersburg, Particularly Towards the End of the Reign of Catherine II, and the Commencement of That of Paul I, Translated From the French
Author: Charles François Philibert Masson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Baltimore, 1858
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Russian Leaders
Author: Alexander Dragomiroff
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Russian Leaders A Bibliography With Indexes
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Russian Leaders A Bibliography With Indexes
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Ruth Pritchard Dawson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350244643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350244643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agents-intriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and more-the 18th-century's media workers-laboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities. This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury consumption, clashing gender roles, and exotic Russia continued to attract non-elite fans and anti-fans during the middle decades of her reign. For the later years, the book considers the scrutiny inspired by the French Revolution and Catherine's skewering in unsparing misogynist cartoons as they applied to visual representations, her achievements as ruler, the long-ago overthrow of her husband, and her gradually revealed list of lovers. Dawson reflects on Catherine II's demise in 1796 and how this instigated a final burst of adoration, loathing, and ambivalence as new accounts of her life, both real and fictional, claimed to unwrap the final secrets of the first modern international female celebrity – even now the only woman in history widely known as 'the Great'.
The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great
Author: Lurana Donnels O'Malley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The 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. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The 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. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.
Modern Philology
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-56 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-56 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.