Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar /

This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were running swiftly, the surface s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Troyat, Henri (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Daily Life
Temas:
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • WEIGHTS, MEASURES, MONEY
  • CHAPTER I ARRIVAL
  • CHAPTER II FAMILY PARTY
  • CHAPTER III RUSSIAN PROMENADE
  • CHAPTER IV ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING OUT
  • CHAPTER V BATHS, TRAKTIRS AND NIGHT SHELTERS
  • CHAPTER VI THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
  • CHAPTER VII THE WORKERS
  • CHAPTER VIII THE ARMY
  • CHAPTER IX THE DIFFERENT SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINE
  • CHAPTER X THE LAW
  • CHAPTER XI MOSCOW'S MANY FACES
  • CHAPTER XII THE TSAR AND HIS ENTOURAGE
  • CHAPTER XIII THE PEASANTS
  • CHAPTER XIV NIZHNY-NOVGOROD
  • CHAPTER XV THE VOLGA
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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