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What Life Was Like
What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, AD 1696-1917
Reveals the daily lives of Russian people during the rule of the Romanovs, including the celebrated serf actor Mikhail Shchepkin, Princess Catherine Dashkova, and others of the period
144 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1999
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
April 30, 2018
Pretty good I guess. It's nice to have a book with lots of art and pictures and timelines after reading so many history books on the subject, but there wasn't really anything I didn't know. Also it was more an accounting of royal events than "what life was like."
May 15, 2012
Informative, interesting, AND visual?! How often does one find a book like this? I must find more of this series!!
January 23, 2020
A good beginners read with some excellent rare facts sprinkled in. Catherine the Great's horse was named Brilliant? Tsar Nicholas II had his coronation collar fall off him in a bad omen? Now those are cool facts. The books formatting was clunky at times but overall it was a pleasant read.
December 15, 2022
This book gives great insight into what life was like in Imperial Russia. The information is well-researched and well-written, and it is a fascinating look into the lives of people that most of us have only heard of. This entire series is very well-done.
December 30, 2018
A pleasant, consice coffee-table book with beautiful illustrations. Perfect for anyone starting their research of Russian history.
browsed-nonfiction
November 19, 2019Not very well laid out and not very useful for what I was looking for (information on Elizabeth Petrovna and details of day-to-day life in Russia during the 18th century).
February 4, 2014
I quite agree with Bethel. This was a very enjoyable book, and while it doesn't provide in-depth information, it does give the reader a very colorful description of the time period.
February 4, 2014
Meh. More of a very basic, general history than the social/cultural history I was expecting. Glad I only paid a buck for it at a library sale.
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