Moscow
A Traveller's Reader
$44.21
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2016
Summary
Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans, the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed, it seemed that two more were built.
In this evocative and fascinating anthology, Moscow’s turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great’s bloody reprisals after the r…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472137142 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472137140 |
| Author: | Laurence Kelly |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 253g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 173mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Not only essential for all prospective visitors … but also entertaining and instructive reading for the armchair traveller. - Observer
Could scarcely be bettered - Sunday TelegraphIndispensable - Guardian[Kelly] has in effect invented a new genre, raising compilation almost to the level of art - Observer[Kelly] has ranged widely and chosen widely - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Laurence Kelly
Laurence Kelly is the editor of the Traveller’s Reader series. Born in Brussels and educated at New College, Oxford, where he read history, he joined the Life Guards in 1950 and served in the Foreign Office. He is the son of a former British ambassador to Russia.
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