Before The Revolution: A View Of Russia Under The Last Tsar
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia stood at a breathtaking crossroads — a vast empire of glittering courts and grinding poverty, of ancient tradition and revolutionary ferment — and Before the Revolution captures this vanished world with haunting precision. Kyril Fitzlyon and Tatiana Browning present a sweeping visual and historical chronicle of Russian life under the last Tsar, Nicholas II, drawing on a rich archive of period photographs to reconstruct the social fabric of a civilisation on the brink of catastrophic collapse. From the gilded salons of the aristocracy to the crowded streets of St. Petersburg, the book details the full spectrum of Russian society — peasants, priests, soldiers, and statesmen — illuminating the vast gulf between privilege and deprivation that would ultimately ignite revolution. The result is an indispensable work of photographic history, as much an elegiac portrait as a scholarly document, illustrating how a magnificent imperial culture carried within it the seeds of its own destruction. Fitzlyon and Browning's carefully curated selection of images and commentary gives voice to a world silenced by history, and the book stands as a powerful reminder of how swiftly empires can dissolve. For anyone captivated by the tragic grandeur of the Romanov era, this volume poses an irresistible question: could anything have saved the Russia that was?
Author: Kyril Fitzlyon And Tatiana Browning
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia stood at a breathtaking crossroads — a vast empire of glittering courts and grinding poverty, of ancient tradition and revolutionary ferment — and Before the Revolution captures this vanished world with haunting precision. Kyril Fitzlyon and Tatiana Browning present a sweeping visual and historical chronicle of Russian life under the last Tsar, Nicholas II, drawing on a rich archive of period photographs to reconstruct the social fabric of a civilisation on the brink of catastrophic collapse. From the gilded salons of the aristocracy to the crowded streets of St. Petersburg, the book details the full spectrum of Russian society — peasants, priests, soldiers, and statesmen — illuminating the vast gulf between privilege and deprivation that would ultimately ignite revolution. The result is an indispensable work of photographic history, as much an elegiac portrait as a scholarly document, illustrating how a magnificent imperial culture carried within it the seeds of its own destruction. Fitzlyon and Browning's carefully curated selection of images and commentary gives voice to a world silenced by history, and the book stands as a powerful reminder of how swiftly empires can dissolve. For anyone captivated by the tragic grandeur of the Romanov era, this volume poses an irresistible question: could anything have saved the Russia that was?