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The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1069min

For listeners of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar."This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told." (Lisa Wingate, New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours)Barely 19, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage - as her older sister, Alix, has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son. The winds of fortune bring Minnie to Russia, where she marries the Romanov heir, Alexander, and once he ascends the throne, becomes empress. When resistance to his reign strikes at the heart of her family and the tsar sets out to crush all who oppose him, Minnie - now called Maria - must tread a perilous path of compromise in a country she has come to love. Her husband’s death leaves their son, Nicholas, as the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that will bring Russia into the modern age, Maria faces implacable opposition from Nicholas’s strong-willed wife, Alexandra, whose fervor has led her into a disturbing relationship with a mystic named Rasputin. As the unstoppable wave of revolution rises anew to engulf Russia, Maria will face her most dangerous challenge and her greatest heartache.From the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg and the intrigue-laced salons of the aristocracy to the World War I battlefields and the bloodied countryside occupied by the Bolsheviks, C. W. Gortner sweeps us into the anarchic fall of an empire and the complex, bold heart of the woman who tried to save it.Praise for The Romanov Empress:“Timely... [Gortner’s] ability to weave what reads as a simple tale from such complex historical and familial storylines is impressive.... Maria’s life as a royal reads like a historical soa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katharine Lee McEwan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006173/bk_rand_006173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Romanovs: 1613-1918 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1726min

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice. Six tsars were murdered, and all the Romanovs lived under constant threat to their lives. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband - who was murdered soon afterwards - loved her young male favourites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Paul was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who faced Napoleon's invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts, and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever written by a ruler. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution - and the harrowing massacre of the entire family. Written with dazzling literary flair, drawing on new archival research, The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is at once an enthralling story of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power and an essential portrait of the empire that still d ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Russell Beale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000931/bk_orio_000931_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Summary of Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 34min

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: six of the last 12 tsars were murdered. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire, and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarves and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband (who was murdered soon afterward), enjoyed affairs with a series of young male favorites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Paul I was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who in turn faced Napoleon's invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever composed by a ruler. The Romanovs climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas II and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution - and the harrowing massacre of the entire family. Dazzlingly entertaining and beautifully written from start to finish, The Romanovs brings these monarchs - male and female, great and flawed, their families and courts - blazingly to life. Drawing on new archival research, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Norma Jean Gradsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068922/bk_acx0_068922_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tsar Nicholas II and the End of the Romanov Dynasty: The History of the Downfall of Imperial Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min

The 17th century was marked by multiple pro-democratic revolutions exploding in both hemispheres. In Europe and its neighbors to the east, border-changing wars were fought incessantly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the underlying premises of political, governmental and social structures within several European and Asian states were shaken to the core after centuries of royalty and one-family rule. By the onset of World War I, royal families began to experience a long, slow decline, with some quietly fading into the status of national symbols and others experiencing political overthrow. Some were horrified by the suddenness of a changing public, while others barely noticed. In the ensuing chaos brought about by the Great War, the last ruling family in Russia suffered the most brutal form of regime change at the hands of the Bolsheviks following a revolution in 1917, as the public outcry for individual equality mirrored the violence of the French Revolution from a prior century. The Romanov dynasty, which had enjoyed unbroken control over the throne since the early 1600s, represented a dilemma for a dissatisfied and restless workforce that nevertheless viewed the royal family through the lens of an ancient mystique. The modern Romanov saga was rife with intrigue, including the exploits of and mystique surrounding Grigory Rasputin, suspicion directed toward the German roots of Tsarina Alexandra, and fascination with the almost beatified children of the Tsar, their image buoyed by the powerful new medium of photography. When this mystical and fictitious portrait of the beloved ruler and happy peasant collided with Lenin’s Bolshevik uprising, a movement largely devoid of mercy or sentiment, the pathos of the Romanov executions was felt all the more deeply around the world, and it has remained a topic of intense inquiry well into the following century. At the same time, gossip surrounding their fates, particularly that of the lost Grand Duc ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074169/bk_acx0_074169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hellseher und Astrologen im Dienste der Macht

Wussten Sie, dass der europäische Einigungsprozess womöglich gescheitert wäre, wenn sich Frankreichs Staatspräsident François Mitterand bei der französischen Volksabstimmung im Jahre 1992 zum Maastrichtvertrag nicht von der Astrologin Elizabeth Teissier hätte beraten lassen?. Wussten Sie, dass Mitterrand während des ersten Kriegs gegen Saddam Hussein mehrmals täglich die Astrologin Teissier konsultierte?Wussten Sie, dass Ronald Reagan erst von der Astrologin seiner Gattin Nancy davon überzeugt werden musste, Michail Gorbatschow zu vertrauen, und erst so das Ende des Kalten Krieges eingeläutet werden konnte?Wussten Sie, dass die Berliner Wahrsagerin Gabriele Hoffmann deutsche Politiker, die in den 90er-Jahren in ihre Praxis kamen, vor der Euro-Einführung warnte, da "ein Haus, das auf geschummelten" Grund gebaut wird, nicht halten kann?Sie halten das alles für bloße Gerüchte, Geschwätz?. Irrtum! Der Autor Stephan Berndt belegt mit seiner akribischen Recherche, dass all das stimmt. Ein Beispiel: Über die jahrelange Zusammenarbeit von US-Präsident Ronald Reagan mit der Astrologin Joan Quigley gibt es alleine drei Bücher - eines von Ronald Reagans Stabschef Regan, eines von Nancy Reagan und eines von deren Astrologin.Doch damit nicht genug: Nach Berndts Recherche muss auch mit der unter Historikern weitverbreiteten Ansicht aufgeräumt werden, Hitler sei kein "Okkultist" gewesen. Zu zahlreich sind inzwischen Zeugenaussagen von Zeitgenossen, neue bzw. wiederentdeckte Dokumente und zahlreiche Indizien, die in eine andere Richtung, nämlich in Richtung Astrologie deuten. Stephan Berndt hat die interessantesten Fälle einer Zusammenarbeit zwischen Herrschern, Hellsehern und Astrologen aus den letzten 3000 Jahren untersucht - angefangen bei den alten Germanen, Griechen und Römern, über das Mittelalter, die Renaissance bis hin zur Gegenwart. Neben Ronald Reagan, François Mitterrand und Adolf Hitler hat Stephan Berndt u. a. weitere Fälle im Zusammenhang mit Hildegard vonBingen, Nostradamus, Napoleon, Rasputin, Kaiser Wilhelm II., Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin und Konrad Adenauer recherchiert. Im Falle von Konrad Adenauer finden sich in dessen späteren Reden sogar Hinweise darauf, dass einer rheinländischen Seherin - Buchela - gelang, ihn von den - ihrer Ansicht nach - zutiefst feindlichen Absichten der USA zu überzeugen.Die Ergebnisse von Berndt Recherchen sind teilweise so unglaublich, dass er gut daran getan hat, seine Aussagen eingehend zu recherchieren und gut zu dokumentieren. Wie andere Arbeiten Berndts auch, hat dieses Werk das Potenzial sich als Standardwerk zu etablieren.

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