| War and Peace: Book Twelve Contributor(s): Maude, Louise (Translator), Maude, Aylmer (Translator), Tolstoy, Leo (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674482642 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.37 lbs) 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "In Petersburg at that time a complicated strug-gle was being carried on with greater heat than ever in the highest circles, between the parties of Rumy ntsev, the French, M rya F dorovna, the Tsar vich, and others, drowned as usual by the buzzing of the court drones. But the calm, luxuri-ous life of Petersburg, concerned only about phantoms and reflections of real life, went on in its old way and made it hard, except by a great ef-fort, to realize the danger and the difficult posi-tion of the Russian people. There were the same receptions and balls, the same French theater, the same court interests and service interests and in-trigues as usual. Only in the very highest circles were attempts made to keep in mind the difficul-ties of the actual position. Stories were whispered of how differently the two Empresses behaved in these difficult circumstances." |