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Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar (Paperback)
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Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar (Paperback)
Series: Daily Life
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This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian
of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's
disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous
Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were
running swiftly, the surface stability of the Tsarist regime show
no indication of the turmoil ahead. The author, who is perhaps best
known for his biography Tolstoy, describes Russian life through the
eyes of a fictional young Englishman visiting a prosperous Russian
merchant family. All facets of Moscow life are covered, from
entertainment and night life to family life and the devotions of
the Orthodox. We learn about Russia's factory workers and peasants,
its soldiers and lawyers, its priests and its city officials, its
Tsar and his entourage: what they do and what they wear, what they
think and what they dream. Concluding chapters take our visitor to
the famous fair at Nizhny-Novgorod, which was held every year from
July 15 to September 10, and on a boat trip down the Volga.
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