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Orlando figes enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on russia, the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people. Now, in natashas dance, internationally renowned historian orlando figes does the same for russian culture, summoning the myriad elements. Pdf download natashas dance a cultural history of russia. One of the most vivid of these stories concerns count nikolai sheremetev and his wife praskovya, a peasant girl whom he trained to be one of. The 16th century manual for the household, domostroi, contains rules of how to tame the wife and keep her obedient. History on a grand scalean enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the worlds most vibrant civilizationsa peoples tragedy, wrote eric hobsbawm, did more to help us understand the russian revolution than any other book i know. Orlando figes is the author of a people s tragedy, natasha s dance, and the crimean war, among other books. History is a statement of facts, that is those that have not been suppressed in the archives. His works have been translated into twentyseven languages.
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