The 200-year life story of a palace created by Catherine the Great's son and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, in the late 18th century, a residence of the Russian imperial family until 1915, a public park and concert site until WWII, used by the Nazis as a military headquarters and looted and burned during their retreat, and restored by thousands of citizens after the War to (nearly) its original glory. With wonderful historical and contemporary photographs, many in color. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace

History

Massie, Suzanne

Russia

Little,Brown & Co

During the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Pavlovsk, the 18th-century Russian palace, built by Catherine the Great's daughter-in-law, was burned to the ground. This book tells the story of various survivors who carried out the task of restoring the palace to its original splendour.

Pavlovsk: The Life of a Palace

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia

Travel

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

Pavlovsk : The Life of a Russian Palace

Heart Tree Pr

'Land of the Firebird' is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere."

Suzanne Massie

The story begins in the late 18th Century court of St Catherine the Great, where the land was bequeathed to her son, who was later assassinated. Subsequent generations added their own hand to the growth of the palace - all of them working with the best architects and artisans of their day. The saga sweeps the reader through the Revolution, when the palace was narrowly saved from rampaging Red Guards by a group of art lovers - only to fall a few years later into the hands of the Nazis - through the heroic siege of Leningrad to the eventual miraculous restoration by a group of Russian museum workers and artists.

Europe

Unicorn Publishing Group

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