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Популярное описание нравов императорского двора России и рассказ о восхождении на престол и начале царствования Екатерины II
Популярное описание нравов императорского двора России и рассказ о восхождении на престол и начале царствования Екатерины II
Американский журналист и путешественник совершил в мае 1885 – августе 1886 поездку по Сибири, знакомясь с системой каторги и ссылки. Разоблачения условий содержания политзаключенных стали толчком пересмотра в США отношения к Российской империи.
Американский журналист и путешественник совершил в мае 1885 – августе 1886 поездку по Сибири, знакомясь с системой каторги и ссылки. Разоблачения условий содержания политзаключенных стали толчком пересмотра в США отношения к Российской империи.
Для английского читателя даны основные этапы русской истории. Основное внимание посвящено причинам экспансии России, помощи славянским народам в освобождении от турецкой зависимости и другим вопросам внешней политики.
Для английского читателя даны основные этапы русской истории. Основное внимание посвящено причинам экспансии России, помощи славянским народам в освобождении от турецкой зависимости и другим вопросам внешней политики.
It is an attempt to reconstruct biblical dates and chronology. For this purpose, chronological calculations had to be made all over again to see how they match with each other. The results were very satisfactory. The calculations and explanations are…
It is an attempt to reconstruct biblical dates and chronology. For this purpose, chronological calculations had to be made all over again to see how they match with each other. The results were very satisfactory. The calculations and explanations are…
An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn's dynamic play. …
An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn's dynamic play. …
Nora has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora's well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Blackmail and innoce…
Nora has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora's well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Blackmail and innoce…
Die Flucht ist nur der Anfang Barbados, 1830: Der schwarze Sklavenjunge Washington Black schuftet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum Leibdiener Christopher Wildes auserwählt wird, dem Bruder des brutalen Plantag…
Die Flucht ist nur der Anfang Barbados, 1830: Der schwarze Sklavenjunge Washington Black schuftet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum Leibdiener Christopher Wildes auserwählt wird, dem Bruder des brutalen Plantag…
Endless sensuality that is boundlessly mesmerizing. Tenderness that works wonders and changes a person beyond recognition. Love that grows with pain and suffering and eventually blooms like an extraordinary orchid. Every line of mine is saturated wit…
Endless sensuality that is boundlessly mesmerizing. Tenderness that works wonders and changes a person beyond recognition. Love that grows with pain and suffering and eventually blooms like an extraordinary orchid. Every line of mine is saturated wit…
Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He's reckless, she's naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank, setting off a series of events that quickly spin out of their control
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Under an Outlaw Moon is based on…
Meet Depression-era newlyweds Bennie and Stella. He's reckless, she's naive. Longing for freedom from tough times, they rob a bank, setting off a series of events that quickly spin out of their control
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Under an Outlaw Moon is based on…
How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, on…
How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr, on…
Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poe…
Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poe…
When Jon attends the premiere of his movie in the Lansing Film Festival, he faces the most important weekend of his young life, but not in ways he expected. His old pal Vince has been stewing for a decade, and their high school friend Amy is now the …
When Jon attends the premiere of his movie in the Lansing Film Festival, he faces the most important weekend of his young life, but not in ways he expected. His old pal Vince has been stewing for a decade, and their high school friend Amy is now the …
Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aftermath of the U.S. government's incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II, and the resettlement of Japanese Ame…
Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aftermath of the U.S. government's incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II, and the resettlement of Japanese Ame…
This modern, comic take on the American Revolution puts the spotlight on the relationship between the brilliant and domineering Ben Franklin and his son William. As Ben plants the seeds of a new republic, King George III appoints William as Royal Gov…
This modern, comic take on the American Revolution puts the spotlight on the relationship between the brilliant and domineering Ben Franklin and his son William. As Ben plants the seeds of a new republic, King George III appoints William as Royal Gov…
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada&#39;s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true fo…
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada&#39;s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true fo…
It has been 70 years since the 'Iron Curtain' was drawn around the Western-occupied sectors of Berlin by the Soviet Union.
Having occupied Berlin three years earlier, Russian forces managed to enforce a blockade on the city in June 1948, pr…
It has been 70 years since the 'Iron Curtain' was drawn around the Western-occupied sectors of Berlin by the Soviet Union.
Having occupied Berlin three years earlier, Russian forces managed to enforce a blockade on the city in June 1948, pr…