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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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    Alix and Nicky
    Alix and Nicky ab 9.99 € als epub eBook: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Biographien & Autobiographien,
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    Peter the Great & Catherine the Great: Russia's Greatest Tsar and Tsarina , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 174min
    For anyone trying to understand the origins of modern Russia, the search should begin with Tsar Peter I (1672-1725), who titled himself Peter the Great during his lifetime. The moniker is fitting, considering the manner in which Peter brought Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the 18th century. Through a series of campaigns, Peter turned Russia into a formidable empire that would subsequently become a major force on the European continent, while also emulating Western Europe and turning Russia into an international state that interacted with the other continental powers. By revolutionizing and modernizing Russian arms, including the creation of Russia's first naval force, Peter was able to pursue an aggressive and expansionist foreign policy that set the stage for the way the European map would be redrawn again and again over the coming centuries. Perhaps more remarkably, as Peter was stretching Russia's borders, he was transforming Russia from the inside as well. Fond of the cultures to the west, Peter embraced technology, science, and the arts, developing a new educational system for his people and supporting a number of institutions of higher learning in Russia. He built a European-style capital at St. Petersburg and also established new ports and access to the Baltic Sea for the purposes of opening up trade with the west. As one of the most famous women rulers in history, Russian Empress Catherine the Great has long been remembered not only as one of the most powerful women of her time, but she was also one of the most powerful and capable rulers in all of Europe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Lehman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035971/bk_acx0_035971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tsarina's Daughter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in rural western America in the 1980s. What neighbors and even her children don't know is that she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. The Tsarina's Daughter centers around young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in pre-Revolutionary Russia, from the magnificence of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to the family's private enclave outside the capital. When her younger brother is diagnosed with hemophilia, the key to his survival lies in the mysterious powers of an illiterate monk, Rasputin. Soon his hold over her parents threatens to destroy them all. But war breaks out and revolution sweeps her family from power and into claustrophobic imprisonment. Then into Tania's life comes a young soldier whose life she helps to save and who becomes her partner in daring plans to rescue the imperial family from the executioners' bullets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Jameson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/000244/bk_bbca_000244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empress Alexandra
    Empress Alexandra ab 5.99 € als epub eBook: The Special Relationship Between Russia's Last Tsarina and Queen Victoria. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Woman Chased by Crows: An Orwell Brennan Mystery, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
    Dockerty police chief Orwell Brennan has his hands full. The town’s mayor keeps trying to use him for re-election while her slick, out-of-town challenger is smearing him every chance he gets. Meanwhile, Brennan’s middle daughter is getting married soon, his youngest is starting to notice boys, his wife has him on a diet, and someone keeps stealing his favorite cookies. Things take an ironic turn for the worse when a Toronto police officer, who was in town to investigate a local murder, is killed in his hotel room. The victim was about to interview the eccentric local dance teacher - a former Russian ballet star who has dark secrets in her past, some unsavory associates, and a slippery way with the truth. One of Brennan’s officers teams up with the dead cop’s ex-partner, and the two uncover a ring of shady pawnbrokers, crooked cops, and Russian thugs, all of whom are after one thing: the Sacred Ember, a very rare ruby once owned by the Tsarina herself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Prince. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008104/bk_adbl_008104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of The Romanovs: By Simon Sebag Montefiore | Includes Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    Summary of The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore | Includes Analysis Preview: Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is a chronicle of the Romanov dynasty over its 300-year reign in Russia. The book focuses on the personalities, choices, and actions of the royal family, including their sexual and romantic relationships. Montefiore provides extensive quotations from the letters and diaries of the Romanovs, many of them unpublished. By telling the story of the Romanovs, Montefiore also tells the story of Russia's rise to empire. The reign of the Romanovs began after the death in 1598 of Feodor Ivanovich, the last of the descendants of Ivan the Terrible. Numerous false heirs - called the False Dmitris - claimed the right to the throne. At the same time, Russia experienced a brutal famine, and Polish and Lithuanian forces invaded the country. The chaos of the Time of Troubles led a national assembly to choose Michael Feodorovich, nephew of a former tsarina, to be the next monarch. Michael was underage at the beginning of his reign so his father, Filaret, Patriarch of Russia, became effectively the first Romanov ruler…. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of The Romanovs: Overview of the Book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Scholl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062365/bk_acx0_062365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Face of Cthulhu and Other Weird Poetry and Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    A collection of 18 poems and six stories, weird as fungi. Ghosts, monsters, and aliens; empresses, adventurers, and cultists; and a lot of death. Includes the poems "Walpurgisnacht" and "Terrors of the Night of April Twenty-Ninth", and the prize-winning Lovecraftian story "Looking into the Can"."The ambition of this collection is to be a 'quaint and curious volume'.""A volume to be listened to in your study, the lamp glowing, the curtains moving slightly with the air through the window. But is the window open?""Or to be listened to in your car, the headlights bobbing, the countryside rolling by empty. But did something move upon that hill?"The Face of Cthulhu and Other Weird Poetry and TalesContents: "Walpurgisnacht" - poem"A Short Account of Unremembered Ancient Times" - poem"Weird Adventure" - poem"The Stairwell" - tale"Zard Tsarina" - poem"Looking into the Can" - tale"Omniscience" - poem"Engine Room" (Blue and Orange) - tale"An Apology for Superstition" - poem"The Cromcast: A Sonnet" - sonnet"Stelae" - poem"Terrors of the Night of April Twenty-Ninth" - poem"Power of Prayer" - poem"In Houses of Dying Light" - prose-poem"The Earthling" - tale"Kyboks Coming Out of the Skies" - poem"The Face of Cthulhu" - poem"Devourer Emperor" - poem"Inconceivable Horror" - tale"The Cult of the Monstrous Man-God" - tale"The Golden, Gory Way" - sonnet"Ghosts" - poem"Just Think" - epigram"Slumber" - poem  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: The Voice Before the Void. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150553/bk_acx0_150553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Enchantments: A Novel of Rasputin's Daughter and the Romanovs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min
    From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire. St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family - including the headstrong Prince Alyosha. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputin’s miraculous healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Aloysha, who suffers from hemophilia, a blood disease that keeps the boy confined to his sickbed, lest a simple scrape or bump prove fatal. Two months after Masha arrives at the palace, the tsar is forced to abdicate, and Bolsheviks place the royal family under house arrest. As Russia descends into civil war, Masha and Alyosha grieve the loss of their former lives, finding solace in each other’s company. To escape the confinement of the palace, they tell stories - some embellished and some entirely imagined - about Nikolay and Alexandra’s courtship, Rasputin’s many exploits, and the wild and wonderful country on the brink of an irrevocable transformation. In the worlds of their imagination, the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close at hand. Mesmerizing, haunting, and told in Kathryn Harrison’s signature crystalline prose, Enchantments is a love story about two people who come together as everything around them is falling apart. From the Hardcover edition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Emelin, Rustam Kasymov. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002905/bk_rand_002905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Russian Revolution of 1917: The History of the Russian Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of the Soviet Union , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
    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. Indeed, there was plenty of mystique, as the Romanov saga was rife with intrigue, including the controversy surrounding Grigory Rasputin, suspicion directed toward the German roots of Tsarina Alexandra, and fascination with the young children of the tsar, their image buoyed by the powerful new medium of photography.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104579/bk_acx0_104579_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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