Six Years at the Russian Court (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

M. Eagar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1528346785 ISBN 13 : 9781528346788

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Six Years at the Russian Court

The English daily papers described the Emperor and his family as having ?ed in their yacht, at a time when the yacht was deeply embedded in ice outside Kronstadt.

I could multiply such stories ad lib., but merely wish to draw attention to the fact that so much that is written regarding Russia and the Imperial family is absolutely untrue, so little is really known about the Court life, that I am emboldened to offer my slight sketches of life in the Palaces. It would be very easy for me to pile on the agony, to represent the Emperor as a much ridden man; to picture plots and counter plots; to speak of hairbreadth escapes from death; of hidden bombs; of life made horrible by fears but no such things have occurred in my six years at the Russian Court, and I am a truthful person, and have not started forth to write fiction, but plain, unvarnished truth.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Collega Library JDK Ells PREFACE. IN a book recently published the author describes at length a visit to the house of the Governor of Moscow, and speaks of his family and governess. Now for fourteen years before his death the Grand Duke Serge was Governor of Moscow and he had no children. A well-known magazine spoke of us travelling with a cow !N ow I can safely aver that I never took a cow on a journey. She would have been very much in our way, and the poor beast would have had a sad time in theB altic orB lackS ea !A gain and again have I seen allusions to theE mpress slove of caricatures, and her cleverness in drawing them. As a matter of fact, theE mpress never drew such a thing in her life ;nor can she see the fun of them when they are drawn by other people.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1528346785
• ISBN 13: 9781528346788
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 324
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