Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia

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This text provides a richly evocative exploration of Russia, its culture and people. Vast in scale and woven though with extraordinary stories and characters, it ranges from the splendour of 18th-century St Petersburg to the power of Stalinist propaganda, from folk art to the magic rituals of Asiatic shamans, from the poetry of Pushkin to the music of Mussorgsky and the films of Eisenstein, bringing to life an extraordinary cast of serf artists and aristocrats, revolutionaries and exiles, priest...Vis mer

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Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia

Pocket · 2003

Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia

Pocket · 2003