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Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 11:02:12 GMT

From the author of *The Romanovs* : a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership--as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin--wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented--was the love of her life and her co-ruler.
Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving each of them free to take younger lovers. But these "twin souls" never stopped loving each other.
Drawing on the pair's intimate letters and on vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore's widely acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.

The World - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 10:57:04 GMT

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs—a magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families

Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us.

In this epic, ever-surprising book, Montefiore chronicles the world’s great dynasties across human history through palace intrigues, love affairs, and family lives, linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama. It features a cast of extraordinary diversity: in addition to rulers and conquerors, there are priests, charlatans, artists, scientists, tycoons, gangsters, lovers, husbands, wives and children. There is Hongwu, the beggar who founded the Ming dynasty; Ewuare, the Leopard-King of Benin; Henry Christophe, King of Haiti; Kamehameha, the conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, the Arab empress who defied Rome; Lady Murasaki, the first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, the Moroccan pirate-queen. Here too are moderns such as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Here are the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads. These powerful families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody succession battles, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence. A dazzling achievement as spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.

Екатерина Великая и Потёмкин: имперская история любви (примечания) - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Fri, 9 Jul 2021 23:39:49 GMT

Примечания к книге Саймона Себага-Монтефиоре «Екатерина Великая и Потёмкин: имперская история любви».

Prince of Princes -The Life of Potemkin - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 06:02:50 GMT

Королевские Кролики Лондона - Санта Монтефиоре - Сказки народов мира

Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:51:17 GMT

Маленький кролик Шайло такой медлительный и неуклюжий. Хотя его братишки и сестрёнки бойкие и быстрые. Вечно они подшучивают над бедным Шайло!
Однажды Шайло узнаёт о подлом плане Крысорацци – злейших врагов королевской семьи за всю историю Англии. Они затеяли выставить Королеву на посмешище всему миру! Сможет ли Шайло постоять за честь Королевы? Ведь ему предстоит побороть неуверенность в себе и попасть в штаб Королевских Кроликов – Большую нору, расположенную в Букингемском дворце. Убедить храбрых пушистых рыцарей, что репутация короны под угрозой, будет непросто.

Екатерина Великая и Потёмкин: имперская история любви - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Историческая проза

Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:36:28 GMT

Библиотека проекта «История Российского государства» – это рекомендованные Борисом Акуниным лучшие памятники исторической литературы, в которых отражена биография нашей страны от самых ее истоков. Саймон Себаг Монтефиоре – английский историк, член Королевского литературного общества, один из самых известных в Англии специалистов по русской истории. Творчество Монтефиоре отмечено многими наградами, а книги изданы на 48 языках и стали мировыми бестселлерами. Основанная на документальных источниках книга «Екатерина Великая и Потёмкин» номинировалась на награды «Samuel Johnson», «Duff Cooper» и «Marsh Biography Prizes», а также на премию «British Book Awards» в номинации «Лучшая историческая книга года».

Королевские Кролики Лондона. Бегство из башни - Санта Монтефиоре - Сказки народов мира

Wed, 22 May 2019 21:01:46 GMT

Маленький и неуклюжий кролик Шайло стал героем! Он служит в ордене Королевских Кроликов в Букингемском дворце и защищает мир от зла.
Но Крысорацци, опаснейшие враги Англии, не дремлют. Они планируют отомстить Шайло и всему ордену. С визитом в Лондон скоро прибудет американский президент собственной персоной! Злодеи хотят напасть на почётного гостя.
Им удаётся ворваться в штаб-квартиру Кроликов и похитить Шайло. Они хотят, чтобы он выдал все-все секреты ордена. Сможет ли наш герой сбежать от Крысорацци и спасти честь страны?

Jerusalem: The Biography - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:06:43 GMT

Иерусалим. Биография - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Mon, 9 Oct 2017 03:17:35 GMT

Иерусалим — один из древнейших городов Земли, центр мироздания, столица двух народов и святыня трех авраамических религий, каждая из которых считает город площадкой, на которой разыграется мистерия Судного дня. История Иерусалима — это мировая история в миниатюре, тысячелетний эпос, среди авторов которого царь Давид и пророк Исайя, Иуда Маккавей и Иисус Христос, император Юстиниан и султан Сулейман, грешники и святые, строители и разрушители… Автор книги Саймон Себаг Монтефиоре, потомок знаменитого еврейского филантропа (улица Монтефиоре есть, вероятно, в каждом городе Израиля), превращает этот величественный эпос в захватывающий рассказ, вплетая в ткань популярного исторического исследования нить собственной семейной легенды.

Red Sky at Noon - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Историческая проза

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:19:58 GMT

‘The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire…’
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis.
He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.
Switching between Benya’s war in the grasslands of southern Russia, and Stalin’s plans in the Kremlin, between Benya’s intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin’s daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a hearbeat away.

One Night in Winter - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Историческая проза

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:19:56 GMT

If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal?
Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead.
But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia’s most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow.
Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state?
Directed by Stalin himself, an investigation begins as children are arrested and forced to testify against their friends – and their parents. This terrifying witch-hunt soon unveils illicit love affairs and family secrets in a world where the smallest mistakes can be punished with death.

Sashenka - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Историческая проза

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:19:54 GMT

In the bestselling tradition of Doctor Zhivago and Sophie’s Choice, a sweeping epic of Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today’s age of oligarchs—by the prizewinning author of Young Stalin.
Winter 1916: St. Petersburg, Russia, is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Girls, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar’s secret police… Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and their dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction.
Twenty years on, Sashenka is married to a powerful, rising Red leader with whom she has two children. Around her people are disappearing, while in the secret world of the elite her own family is safe. But she’s about to embark on a forbidden love affair that will have devastating consequences.
Sashenka’s story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin’s private archives and uncovers a heartbreaking tale of betrayal and redemption, savage cruelty and unexpected heroism—and one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Sat, 21 May 2016 15:13:15 GMT

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?

This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin.

To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: six tsars were murdered and all the Romanovs lived under constant threat to their lives. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire, and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband – who was murdered soon afterwards – loved her young male favourites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Paul was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who faced Napoleon's invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts, and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever written by a ruler. THE ROMANOVS climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution – and the harrowing massacre of the entire family.

Written with dazzling literary flair, drawing on new archival research, THE ROMANOVS is at once an enthralling story of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power, and an essential portrait of the empire that still defines Russia today

Потемкин - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Биографии и Мемуары

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:03:41 GMT

Книга английского историка С.Себага-Монтефиоре - первая подробная биография светлейшего князя Григория Александровича Потемкина (1739 - 1791), великого российского исторического деятеля XVIII века. Превращение мелкопоместного, безвестного гвардейского офицера в могущественного фаворита, фактически соправителя императрицы Екатерины II, их многолетняя любовь, ставшая основой невероятной власти Потемкина, присоединение Крыма к России, создание Черноморского флота, строительство новых городов, заселение южнороссийских земель, победы в русско-турецких войнах, частная жизнь светлейшего князя, его любовные связи и политические интриги - все это основано на документальных источниках, но изложено с таким мастерством беллетриста, что книгу с интересом прочтут историки и политики, студенты и школьники, а также просто любители занимательной литературы.

Двор Красного монарха: История восхождения Сталина к власти - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Биографии и Мемуары

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:41:55 GMT

История превращения двойного агента Иосифа Джугашвили в легендарного Сталина – одного из главных диктаторов XX века.

Красный монарх: Сталин и война - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Биографии и Мемуары

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:10:00 GMT

История преступлений и побед советского диктатора, выигравшего Великую Отечественную войну.

Молодой Сталин - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Биографии и Мемуары

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:15:34 GMT

Семинарист, герой-любовник, террорист, поэт, метеоролог, пират, охотник – и это далеко не все обличья Сталина, еще не ставшего тираном. Всегда ли в нем дремал безжалостный диктатор, способный уничтожить миллионы людей? Почему именно на него пал выбор истории? Каким видели Сталина современники, которые его еще не боялись? Чтобы ответить на эти вопросы, британский историк Саймон Себаг Монтефиоре разыскал уникальные архивные документы и восстановил дооктябрьский период жизни советского вождя, тщательно фиксируя каждый шаг на пути к кремлевскому трону.
Книга “Молодой Сталин” Монтефиоре, увлекательная, взвешенная и во многом неожиданная, вызвала широкий читательский отклик и стала мировым бестеллером. Она добавляет важные черты к портрету, созданному автором в предыдущей биографии – “Сталин. Двор Красного монарха”.

Сашенька - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Исторические любовные романы

Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:49:02 GMT

Нет возврата к былому благополучию и покою.
Ее отец требует развода у матери, чтобы жениться на симпатичной гувернантке.
Сама девушка попадает в тюрьму по обвинению в терроризме. А выбравшись на свободу, подвергается домогательствам комиссара Сагана, от которых ее спасает брак с сотрудником НКВД.
С мужем она живет в согласии и достатке, но ухаживания известного писателя вдруг пробуждают в ней неудержимую страсть.
Сколько продлится запретное блаженство?
Какую цену придется заплатить за него?

Сашенька - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Исторические любовные романы

Sat, 1 Mar 2014 09:46:30 GMT

Кате Винской, юной выпускнице исторического факультета МГУ, научный руководитель поручает очень необычное исследование. Русский миллиардер Павел, живущий в Англии, пожелал восстановить историю своей семьи, выяснить, что стало с его бабушкой и дедушкой, сгинувшими в эпоху сталинских репрессий.
Поиски увлекают Катю, пыльные страницы архивных документов словно бы обретают плоть и кровь. Катя с восхищением следит за судьбой Сашеньки, бабушки Павла, женщины необычайной красоты и мужества. По-настоящему она полюбила один раз в жизни и дорого заплатила за это. Постепенно Катя начинает понимать, что это задание было дано ей не случайно...

Titans of History - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:41:05 GMT

Our world has been shaped by just a few people. These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths. This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring characters that everyone should know.

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:35:45 GMT

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative plan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.
We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We witness first-hand how the dictator and his magnates carried out the Great Terror and the war against the Nazis, and how their families lived in this secret world of fear, betrayal, murder, and sexual degeneracy. Montefiore gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin’s dictatorship, and a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal.
* * *
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains one of the creators of our world. The scale of his crimes has made him, along with Hitler, the very personification of evil. Yet while we know much about Hitler, Stalin and his regime remain mysterious. Now, in this enthralling history of Stalin’s imperial court, the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous brutality are brought blazingly to life.
Who was the boy from Georgia who rose to rule the Empire of the Tsars? Who were his Himmler, Göring, Goebbels? How did these grandees rule? How did the “top ten” families live? Exploring every aspect of this supreme politician, from his doomed marriage and mistresses, and his obsession with film, music and literature, to his identification with the Tsars, Simon Sebag Montefiore unveils a less enigmatic, more intimate Stalin, no less brutal but more human, and always astonishing.
Stalin organised the deadly but informal game of power amongst his courtiers at dinners, dances, and singsongs at Black Sea villas and Kremlin apartments: a secret, but strangely cosy world with a dynamic, colourful cast of killers, fanatics, degenerates and adventurers. From the murderous bisexual dwarf Yezhov to the depraved but gifted Beria, each had their role: during the second world war, Stalin played the statesman with Churchill and Roosevelt aided by Molotov while, with Marshal Zhukov, he became the triumphant warlord. They lived on ice, killing others to stay alive, sleeping with pistols under their pillows; their wives murdered on Stalin’s whim, their children living by a code of lies. Yet they kept their quasi-religious faith in the Bolshevism that justified so much death.
Based on a wealth of new materials from Stalin’s archives, freshly opened in 2000, interviews with witnesses and massive research from Moscow to the Black Sea, this is a sensitive but damning portrait of the Genghis Khan of our epoch.

Young Stalin - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - Биографии и Мемуары

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:01:02 GMT

Stalin, like Hitler, remains the very personification of evil but also one of the creators of today’s world. Now in an enthralling biography that reads like a thriller, Simon Sebag Montefiore unveils the shadowy, adventurous journey of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar.
* * *
What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was his mother whore or saint? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin’s chief gangster? Was his most notorious heist planned during his stay in London? Was he to blame for his wife’s death? If he really missed the 1917 Revolution, how did he emerge so powerful?
Born in poverty, scarred by his upbringing, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet and trained as a priest but found his mission as fanatical revolutionary. He became the mastermind of bank-robberies, protection-rackets, arson, piracy and murder yet he was, uniquely, part-intellectual, part-brigand. Surprisingly, he is also revealed as a scandalously prolific lover, leaving a trail of mistresses (varying from schoolgirls to noblewomen) and illegitimate children.
Here is the arch-conspirator and escape-artist whose brutal ingenuity so impressed Lenin that he made Stalin (with Trotsky) his top henchman. The paranoid underworld of Joseph Conrad-style terrorism was Stalin’s natural habitat. Montefiore shows how clannish Caucasian banditry and murderous gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, qualified Stalin to dominate the Kremlin—and create the USSR in his flawed image.
Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin, companion and prequel to bestselling, prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR—and a fascinatingly intimate biography: this is how Stalin became Stalin.

Young Stalin - Саймон Джонатан Себаг Монтефиоре - История

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:26:17 GMT

What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was his mother whore or saint? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin’s chief gangster? Was his most notorious heist planned during his stay in London? Was he to blame for his wife’s death? If he really missed the 1917 Revolution, how did he emerge so powerful?

Born in poverty, scarred by his upbringing, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet and trained as a priest but found his mission as fanatical revolutionary. He became the mastermind of bank-robberies, protection-rackets, arson, piracy and murder yet he was, uniquely, part-intellectual, part-brigand. Surprisingly, he is also revealed as a scandalously prolific lover, leaving a trail of mistresses (varying from schoolgirls to noblewomen) and illegitimate children.

Here is the arch-conspirator and escape-artist whose brutal ingenuity so impressed Lenin that he made Stalin (with Trotsky) his top henchman. The paranoid underworld of Joseph Conrad-style terrorism was Stalin’s natural habitat. Montefiore shows how clannish Caucasian banditry and murderous gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, qualified Stalin to dominate the Kremlin — and create the USSR in his flawed image.

Based on massive research and astonishing new evidence in archives from Moscow to Georgia, Young Stalin, companion and prequel to bestselling, prizewinning Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, is a chronicle of the Revolution, a pre-history of the USSR — and a fascinatingly intimate biography: this is how Stalin became Stalin.

Цитата:

«Молодой Сталин» (англ. Young Stalin) — книга английского историка и публициста Саймона Монтефьоре.

Книга была удостоена ряда литературных премий: премии газеты «Лос-Анджелес Таймс» за лучшее биографическое произведение, Премии Коста, премии имени Бруно Крайского и др.

Кинокомпания Miramax Films приобрела права на экранизацию книги.