Alpsten, Ellen
Summary: "Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping first-person narrative is the story of her rise to power. St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father to an appalling act of cruelty and left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPTolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raduga Pub. 1932
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raduga Pub. 1932
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Stanley, Diane.
Summary: A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four winds Press 1986