An artist for the Illustrated London News, Price sailed with a commercial mission establishing trade with Russian arctic ports on the Kara Sea (the mouth of the Yenisei River). He went up the river through Siberia all the way to Mongolia, and from there another four thousand miles to Shanghai. What he uncovered was basically the terrra incognita of Siberia was astonishing: thriving cities and towns that would be a credit to any developed nation. He was well aware of how surprising this was, went to great pains to describe every aspect of life there. Knowing how the Russian practice of exiling prisoners to Siberia was regarded in the west, he made careful investigations into their lives, as he knew what he was seeing would totally contradict the conventional views.
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The memoirs of Princess Varvara Fedorovna Golitsyna are the female equivalent of Samuel Pepys’ famous diaries, only more interesting. In 1876, the princess married Sergei Mikhailovich Dukhovskoi, already a distinguished senior officer at thirty-eight. In the Turkish War (1877-1878) Sergei Mikhailovich distinguished himself, and his young wife proved herself a determined and resourceful woman, as she was determined to join him—at great risk to herself. As an important senior officer, he spent a great deal of time in Western Europe, so the couple traveled all over, and the greater part of the book consists of Varvara Fedorovna’s accounts of their travels. As a result, her memoir gives us an engrossing account of the rewards and difficulties of European travel. A fascinating account by a remarkable woman.
This book was not intended to be published, and it is to accident that we owe its appearance. The author, from her childhood, followed affection ate advices and good examples, and noted every day her impressions of everything she saw and heard about her. She puts in these pages all the freshness and sincerity of her woman's heart. Circumstances placed the author in the centre of remarkable events. Remaining faithful to the principle of not interfering with her husband's business, she becomes, however, unwillingly, the spectatrix of particularly interesting facts: the outside…
Petropoulos considers ten important artists who either managed to accommodate themselves to the Third Reich or flourished during it, placing each individual both in the context of his own achievements and his relationship to Adolf Hitler and the Party. His preface and introduction alone make the book valuable, as it gives the reader an idea of the complexity both of the subject and of the society in which these men and women found themselves. His treatment of Hindemith, Richard Strauss, and Leni Riefenstahl is perceptive and thoughtful—particularly so with Riefenstahl. As I can testify from personal experience, anyone attempting any objective account of Germany in this period will be savagely attacked, and Petropoulos picks his way through this minefield very dexterously, although the end result is a difficult read.
A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany
"What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent German artists, architects, composers, film directors, painters, and writers who rejected exile, choosing instead to stay during Germany's darkest period, Petropoulos shows how individuals variously dealt with…
Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.
