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Romanov riches : Russian writers and artists under the Tsars Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.Description: xi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780307270634
- Romanov, House of -- History
- Romanov, House of -- Art patronage
- Authors, Russian -- Biography
- Russian literature -- History and criticism
- Artists -- Russia -- Biography
- Composers -- Russia -- Biography
- Arts, Russian -- History
- Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- Russia -- Intellectual life
- Russia -- History -- 1613-1917
- 700.947
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 700.947 VOL | Available | 051883 |
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The first Romanovs : from Tsar Mikhail to Peter I -- Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov -- Catherine the Great and the culture of her era -- Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky -- Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and young Pushkin -- Nicholas I and Pushkin -- Lermontov and Briullov -- Gogol, Ivanov, Tyutchev and the end of the Nicholas I era -- Alexander II, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky -- Herzen, Tolstoy, and the women's issue -- Tchaikovsky and homosexuality in imperial Russia -- Dostoevsky and the Romanovs -- Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky -- Nicholas II and Lenin as art connoisseurs.
