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Shostakovich and Stalin
The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r
E-bok, 2007
236 kr
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“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under …
Magical Chorus
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate …
Romanov Riches
Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family. Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists and …
Testimony
The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov
Av Dmitri Shostakovich, Solomon Volkov
Häftad, 2005
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176 kr
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'A terrifying and unhappy book...' The GuardianThis astounding self-portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) was prepared in collaboration with the distinguished Soviet musicologist Solomon Volkov. With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia - …
St Petersburg: a Cultural History
Häftad, 1997
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476 kr
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Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat—the "Venice of the North," conceived in a setting of malarial swamps—St. Petersburg was built in 1703 by Peter the Great as Russia's gateway to the West. For almost 300 years this splendid city has survived the most extreme attempts of …
Conversations with Joseph Brodsky
A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2002
237 kr
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From Simon & Schuster, Conversations with Joseph Brodsky is Solomon Volkov's exploration of a poet's journey through the 20th century.A portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodskey is painted through fifteen years of interviews with the author, depicting his childhood years in war-torn …
Testimony
The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
E-bok, 2004
298 kr
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This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as …
Testimony
The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
Häftad, 2004
270 kr
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This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as …
Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Häftad, 2009
228 kr
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St Petersburg
A Cultural History
E-bok, 2010
213 kr
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The definitive cultural biography of the “Venice of the North” and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy, written by Russian emerge and acclaimed cultural historian, Solomon Volkov. Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat—the "Venice of the North," conceived in a …
