The Princess Xenia

The Princess Xenia PDF Author: Henry Brereton Marriott Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Princess Xenia

The Princess Xenia PDF Author: Henry Brereton Marriott Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Once a Grand Duchess

Once a Grand Duchess PDF Author: John Van der Kiste
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752499297
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.

Seven Daughters of Eve

Seven Daughters of Eve PDF Author: Bryan Sykes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393323146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.

A Romanov Diary

A Romanov Diary PDF Author: George (Grand Duchess of Russia)
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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"'A Romanov diary' spans 50 years in the life of Royal Europe (1884-1934) during one of its most turbulent periods of history. Grand Duchess George (Marie) of Russia, writes of Emperors, Kings, Queens and Royal cousins in their everyday, private lives, as well as their intricate relationships which determined the course of history.

The Body of the Queen

The Body of the Queen PDF Author: Regina Schulte
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845451219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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"Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Princess Olga

Princess Olga PDF Author: Olga Romanoff
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
ISBN: 9780856835179
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. She is the youngest child of the late Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, who was born in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1897. He fled Russia in 1918 with his pregnant (first) wife and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, while his mother, Grand Duchess Xenia, and his grandmother, Her Imperial Highness Maria Feodorovna, followed a year later. The fabled Romanov jewels that they were able to smuggle out had to be sold and the exiled family lived for some time at various grace-and-favour homes at Windsor and Hampton Court. The book is peppered with amusing anecdotes about the Royal Family and their British cousins. The reader will also get a glimpse of the Princess's cosseted childhood. She was looked after by a number of nannies and then privately educated at home for fear of mixing with ordinary local children. My mother was a frightful snob, says Princess Olga, who rebelled, and who still laughs about one of her mother's ambitions: to marry her off to Prince Charles! It was indeed an unusual upbringing with a snobbish and strict mother of Scottish and Scandinavian background, and a more relaxed and indulgent Romanov father whose occupation was stated as 'Prince of Russia' on Olga's birth certificate. Her home, Provender House is crammed full of fascinating Romanov memorabilia, from the crockery used by the tsar and his family during their final captivity in Ekaterinburg, to the diamond blade penknife used for scratching the news of Prince Andrei's birth on a window pane in the Winter Palace - still there for visitors to see. The rambling 30-room Provender House, now open to the public, has indeed been witness to some extraordinary tales - many of them hitherto untold - handed down by Princess Olga's father." -- provided by publisher.

Lethal Affairs

Lethal Affairs PDF Author: Kim Baldwin
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602823200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Love has never been more lethal. Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, ingenuity, and courage, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love. First in the Elite Operatives romantic intrigue series.

The Bookman

The Bookman PDF Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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The Pall Mall Magazine

The Pall Mall Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082

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Anastasia

Anastasia PDF Author: James B. Lovell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312111335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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It is one of the greatest riddles of all time: Did Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last Russian Czar, survive the massacre of the royal family in 1917? James Blair Lovell's painstaking research proves, beyond a doubt, that Anna Anderson--who claimed until her death in 1984 she was Anastasia--indeed was. "Reads like a detective novel".--Publishers Week.