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Chargement... False Tsarspar Gyula Szvák
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I don't know if it was the translation or what, but this book was full of sentences like "In fact his success was mainly due to the soothsayer's sensing the public mood, readily recognizing him as the tsarevich." (page 99) But otherwise this short book was chock-full of information about the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic stories of false tsars and even occasional false false tsars -- guys who pretended to be the guy who pretended to be the tsar. I had no idea there were so many of these! During the Time of Troubles for instance, there were no fewer than FIVE False Dmitris, in addition to the (dead) real one. Anyone interested in Russian history or royal pretenders will enjoy this. Just try to ignore the grammatical errors. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Covering all pretenders to the Russian throne from the Times of Troubles to the end of the nineteenth century, this book stops just short of the false Alekseis and false Anastasias of our time. Explaining why some of the pretenders attracted wide social support, which others lacked, the author examines the role of self-fashioning and impersonation in Russian culture. Szvák focuses on three principal "waves" of pretenders: the false Dimitris (all claiming to be Ivan the Terrible's son Dimitri who died in childhood), the false Peters (following the death of Catherine the Great's husband in the palace coup of 1762), and the false Constantines of the nineteenth century (trying to assume the identity of Nicholas I's older brother Constantine). Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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