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Chargement... Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyrpar Christopher Warwick
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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. Impeccable - easily one of the finest biographies I've ever read. I felt as if I was stepping into someone else's life. This book has is all: meticulous research, exceptional detail, a fascinating subject and a deeply moving and powerful story. It also helps that the author is a deft touch at guiding the reader through history as it unfolds, no mean feat when you consider the size of the cast of characters he has to work with. I initially thought that I would have prefered to have a few family trees included, but as it turned out I didn't miss them. What a book, what a treat! I cannot say enough good things about this book. Christoper Warwick does an absolutely stellar job in profiling the life of one of the most fascinating Romanov women. Hauntingly beautiful, this book tells of Ella's life, begun in modest circumstances, through her brilliant and opulent Romanov years, all the way through to its tragic end. This is a must read for any Romanov fan and, indeed, any fan of Ella's. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Considered to have been the most beautiful princess in Europe, capable of arousing 'profane passions', Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, or 'Ella' as she was known, was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the daughter of Princess Alice of Great Britain and Grand Duke Louis of Hesse. A privileged, happy Victorian childhood was touched by tragedy not only with the early deaths of her youngest brother and sister but also that of her young mother. Close to Queen Victoria, Ella spent some of her happiest times in Britain. At 20, however, much against the wishes of her grandmother, who despised everything Russian, Ella became engaged to Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, the authoritarian younger brother of Tsar Alexander III. It was at their wedding that her younger sister, Alix, formed a love match with the future Tsar Nicholas II; an event which not only sealed the fate of both sisters, but that of the Imperial House of Romanov. But for these two marriages, the history of Russia might have been very different. With the assassination of her husband, Ella renounced society and, against considerable opposition, founded the first religious Order of its kind in Russia, working for the poor and destitute of Moscow. Though loved for her charitable works and pionerering achievements, Ella, like Nicholas, Alexandra, and fourteen members of their family, met a brutal death at the hands of the Bolsheviks. At the height of the Russian Revolution, she was taken captive to Siberia where, having been clubbed with rifle butts, she was hurled alive into a disused mineshaft and left to die of her injuries. Later retrieved, her incorrupt body was eventually laid to rest on the Mount of Olives. She was subsequently canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It would have been better had it been possible to give more information on the years when she was married, but many relevant letters and papers were destroyed.
The book does not gain from the author's unreasonable bias against Elisabeth's sister Alix, who comes out of this book worse than Lenin and the Bolsheviks who actually killed Elisabeth. The author also seems to be prejudiced against bisexuals, given many of his comments about various members of the Imperial family. ( )