Queen Victoria and The Romanovs (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2020-02-15
Förlag
Amberley Publishing
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 16 Plates
Illustrationer
16 Plates, black and white
Dimensioner
163 x 155 x 18 mm
Vikt
545 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781445695037

Queen Victoria and The Romanovs

Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust

av Coryne Hall
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2020-02-15
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Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to horrid Russia and was adamant that she did not wish her granddaughters to marry into that barbaric country. Russia I could not wish for any of you, she said. She distrusted Tsar Nicholas I but as a young woman she was bowled over by his son, the future Alexander II, although there could be no question of a marriage. Political questions loomed large and the Crimean War did nothing to improve relations. This distrust started with the story of the Queens Aunt Julie, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and her disastrous Russian marriage. Starting with this marital catastrophe, Romanov expert Coryne Hall traces sixty years of family feuding that include outright war, inter-marriages, assassination, and the Great Game in Afghanistan, when Alexander III called Victoria a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman. In the fateful year of 1894, Victoria must come to terms with the fact that her granddaughter has become Nicholas IIs wife, the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Eventually, distrust of the German Kaiser brings Victoria and the Tsar closer together. Permission has kindly been granted by the Royal Archives at Windsor to use extracts from Queen Victoria's journals to tell this fascinating story of family relations played out on the world stage.
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Coryne Hall is an historian, broadcaster and consultant specialising in the Romanovs and British and European royalty. Her books include 'Queen Victoria and the Romanovs', 'Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess' and 'Princess Olga. A Wild and Barefoot Romanov' (With H.H. Princess Olga Romanoff). She is a regular contributor to Majesty magazine, The European Royal History Journal, and Royalty Digest Quarterly.

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