Moscow

A Traveller's Reader

Laurence Kelly

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English

Little Brown
09 August 2016

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans, the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed, it seemed that two more were built.

In this evocative and fascinating anthology, Moscow's turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great's bloody reprisals after the revolt of the streltsy in 1698; a visit to the city's brothels by medical students in the 1890s; Kutuzov abandoning Moscow to Napoleon in 1812, and Napoleon's ignominious retreat from the burning city; Pushkin railing against the mindlessness of 1830 society; the flowering of literary greatness in the nineteenth century and of the Moscow Art Theatre in the twentieth; and the dazzling profusion of jewels in the Treasury of the Kremlin.

These and many other milestones in over seven hundred years of history are brought vividly to life.

By: Laurence Kelly
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 173mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 253g
ISBN: 9781472137142
ISBN 10: 1472137140
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence Kelly is the editor of the Traveller's Reader series. Born in Brussels and educated at New College, Oxford, where he read history, he joined the Life Guards in 1950 and served in the Foreign Office. He is the son of a former British ambassador to Russia.

Reviews for Moscow: A Traveller's Reader

Not only essential for all prospective visitors . . . but also entertaining and instructive reading for the armchair traveller. - Observer Could scarcely be bettered - Sunday Telegraph Indispensable - Guardian [Kelly] has in effect invented a new genre, raising compilation almost to the level of art - Observer [Kelly] has ranged widely and chosen widely - Daily Telegraph