{"product_id":"tales-of-imperial-russia-c-hardcover","title":"Tales of Imperial Russia C - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Wcislo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory and biography meet in \u003cem\u003eTales of Imperial Russia\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesman serving an empire. He was the most important statesman of pre-revolutionary Russia. In the Georgia, Odessa, Kyiv, and St. Petersburg of the nineteenth century, he inhabited the worlds of the Victorian Age, as young boy, student, railway executive, lover of divorcees and Jews, monarchist, and technocrat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis political career saw him construct the Tran-Siberian Railway, propel Russia towards Far Eastern war with Japan, visit America in 1905 to negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth concluding that war, and return home to confront revolutionary disorder with the State Duma, the first Russian parliament. The book is based on two memoir manuscripts that Witte wrote between 1906 and 1912, and includes his account of Nicholas II, the Empress Alexandra, and the machinations of a Russian imperial court that he believed were leading the country to revolution. Telling the story both of a life and of the last days of the Tsarist empire, \u003cem\u003eTales of Imperial Russia\u003c\/em\u003e will delight and inform all those interested in biography, literature, and history, as well as readers interested in the history of modern Russia.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank W. Wcislo\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian of modern Russia, Eurasia, and Europe. He is Dean of The Commons and Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.42 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467974590717,"sku":"9780199543564","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/K1JVK0FEODU0Q05ucVZ3U1pnMTgyQT09.webp?v=1777281720","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/tales-of-imperial-russia-c-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}