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Gelezen, maar in zeer goede staat!
Wel een scheurtje en een gaatje in de rug van de stofomslag (zie foto 3).
Hardcover, met stofomslag.
Door Rachel Polonsky.
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In the 1990s Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow with her family, and began a journey of discovery into a country she thought she knew well.
She lived in an apartment block on Romanov Lane that had, in tsarist and soviet times, been a residence of the elite; and one of those ghostly neighbours was Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin\'s henchman and arch-survivor of that ferocious regime. In Molotov\'s former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered what remained of his library and an old magic lantern. And she learned that Molotov - ruthless apparatchik, joint author of the collectivisations and the Great Purge - was an ardent bibliophile, an eager reader with a particular devotion to Checkov. He had all the classics, and he owned signed first editions of books by writers he later sent to the Gulag.
The library and the building in which she found it are at the heart of this book, the prism through which she looked at Russian history and at Russia as it is under Putin, and she kept returning to it in her journeys around Russia in search of the places associated with the writers in the library and with the politicians and soldiers who had lived in the Romanov house. At first she walked the streets around the Kremlin, writing about Moscow\'s buildings and churches, its old bath houses and vanished aristocratic families, about Pushkin and the decembrists. She then widened her search to the towns and dacha colonies in the region around the capital.
Later she went from the far south to the high Arctic, from Novgorod in the west to the border with Mongolia in the east. In each place she encountered the past of a country ravaged by war, famine, genocide and totalitarianism, but also the legacy of Russia\'s writers: their airy humanism, their tortured insights and nationalist fantasies, their epic respones to war and terror, their commitment to spiritual values and to natural science - a great and contradictory culture that continues to haunt the rest of the world.
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Interessante mix tussen een geschiedenisboek en roman.
Faber and Faber, 2010, isbn 978-0-571-23780-7.
5 euro :)
Ophalen of verzenden. Eventuele verzendkosten (dik boek: 6,95 pakketpost) voor de koper.
Kijk voor nog veel meer leuks ook bij mijn andere aanbiedingen!
Vriendelijke groet,
PK
Wel een scheurtje en een gaatje in de rug van de stofomslag (zie foto 3).
Hardcover, met stofomslag.
Door Rachel Polonsky.
-
In the 1990s Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow with her family, and began a journey of discovery into a country she thought she knew well.
She lived in an apartment block on Romanov Lane that had, in tsarist and soviet times, been a residence of the elite; and one of those ghostly neighbours was Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin\'s henchman and arch-survivor of that ferocious regime. In Molotov\'s former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered what remained of his library and an old magic lantern. And she learned that Molotov - ruthless apparatchik, joint author of the collectivisations and the Great Purge - was an ardent bibliophile, an eager reader with a particular devotion to Checkov. He had all the classics, and he owned signed first editions of books by writers he later sent to the Gulag.
The library and the building in which she found it are at the heart of this book, the prism through which she looked at Russian history and at Russia as it is under Putin, and she kept returning to it in her journeys around Russia in search of the places associated with the writers in the library and with the politicians and soldiers who had lived in the Romanov house. At first she walked the streets around the Kremlin, writing about Moscow\'s buildings and churches, its old bath houses and vanished aristocratic families, about Pushkin and the decembrists. She then widened her search to the towns and dacha colonies in the region around the capital.
Later she went from the far south to the high Arctic, from Novgorod in the west to the border with Mongolia in the east. In each place she encountered the past of a country ravaged by war, famine, genocide and totalitarianism, but also the legacy of Russia\'s writers: their airy humanism, their tortured insights and nationalist fantasies, their epic respones to war and terror, their commitment to spiritual values and to natural science - a great and contradictory culture that continues to haunt the rest of the world.
-
Interessante mix tussen een geschiedenisboek en roman.
Faber and Faber, 2010, isbn 978-0-571-23780-7.
5 euro :)
Ophalen of verzenden. Eventuele verzendkosten (dik boek: 6,95 pakketpost) voor de koper.
Kijk voor nog veel meer leuks ook bij mijn andere aanbiedingen!
Vriendelijke groet,
PK