Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1821 and 1822: With Miscellaneous Remarks on the Past and Pres, Mathison Gilbert Farquhar

Автор: Wilhelm Maria, Mathison Dirk
Название: James Cameron`s Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook
ISBN: 0061801240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061801242
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Get the inside scoop on James Cameron’s Avatar! Learn all about how the Avatar world was created, the creatures that inhabit it, and many other cool facts in this colorful Movie Scrapbook.

Автор: Farquhar Michael
Название: Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
ISBN: 0812979052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812979053
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality. In this incredibly entertaining history, Michael Farquhar collects the best, most captivating true tales of Romanov iniquity. We meet Catherine the Great, with her endless parade of virile young lovers (none of them of the equine variety); her unhinged son, Paul I, who ordered the bones of one of his mother’s paramours dug out of its grave and tossed into a gorge; and Grigori Rasputin, the “Mad Monk,” whose mesmeric domination of the last of the Romanov tsars helped lead to the monarchy’s undoing. From Peter the Great’s penchant for personally beheading his recalcitrant subjects (he kept the severed head of one of his mistresses pickled in alcohol) to Nicholas and Alexandra’s brutal demise at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Secret Lives of the Tsars captures all the splendor and infamy that was Imperial Russia.