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How did one family turn a warruined principality into the worlds greatest empire. Catherine the great and potemkin was shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize. The court of the red tsar won the history book of the year prize at the british book awards. The life of potemkin is more interested in life at the top than at the bottom, so he includes hundreds of pages on stalins purges of top communists, while devoting much less space to the forced collectivization of soviet peasants that led to millions of deaths. Simon sebag montefiore from publishers weekly montefiore the prince of princes. It was hard to be a tsar, writes simon sebag montefiore at the start of this glorious romp through the history of the romanov family from 16 until the fall of the dynasty just over 300 years later. Simon sebag montefiore audio books, best sellers, author. In his mammoth 744page opus, the romanovs, simon sebag montefiore, the eminent biographer of joseph stalin and grigory potemkin, covers the entire dynasty, from its rise to its apogee to its fall an enterprise that has been accomplished only twice before. May 26, 2016 his latest book, the romanovs, draws on newly available archival material to chronicle three centuries of romanov rule. Simon sebag montefiore is an extraordinary historian, an erudite in russia, and an excellent writer.
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Simon sebag montefiore is a historian of russia and the middle east. Waterstones nonfiction book of the month for february 2017. In a story bursting with blood, sex and tears, we learn that absolute power corrupts. The romanovs by simon sebag montefiore was a very eye opening read for me. I have known very little of russian history until the last year or so when another book, a work of fiction, really sparked my interest. Given how many books have been written about the romanov family and its members and pretenders, i did wonder briefly whether simon sebag. A story of conspiracy, drunken coups, assassination, torture, impaling, breaking on the wheel, lethal floggings with the knout, sexual and alcoholic excess, charlatans and pretenders, flamboyant wealth based on a grinding serfdom, and, not surprisingly, a vicious cycle of repression and revolt.
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