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Bloomsbury presents The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes read by David Sibley
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR Sunday Times Irish Times Spectator Financial Times Telegraph Aspects of History
The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia ANNE APPLEBAUM
A magnificent magisterial thousand year history of Russia by one of the masters of Russian scholarship SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
A great historian at the peak of his powers WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
An excellent short study MAX HASTINGS SUNDAY TIMES
If you really want to understand Putins Russia today anchored in its past of myths then you simply have to read Figess superb account ANTONY BEEVOR
A lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nations past have been used to shape its autocratic present OBSERVER
A valuable instructive overview INDEPENDENT
From the great storyteller of Russia a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the countrys past and how they can inform its present
No other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia None has changed its story so often How the Russians came to tell their story and to reinvent it as they went along is a vital aspect of their history their culture and beliefs To understand what Russias future holds to grasp what Putins regime means for Russia and the world we need to unravel the ideas and meanings of that history
In The Story of Russia Orlando Figes brings into sharp relief the vibrant characters that comprise Russias rich history and whose stories remain so important in making sense of the worlds largest nation today from the crowning of sixteenyearold Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral to Catherine the Great riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace to the bitter last days of the Romanovs
Beautifully written and based on a lifetime of scholarship The Story of Russia is a major and definitive work from the great storyteller of Russian history sweeping suspenseful masterful
PRAISE FOR ORLANDO FIGES
An outstanding historian and writer he brings distant history so close that you could feel its heartbeat
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
Figes knows more about Russia than any other historian
MAX HASTINGS SUNDAY TIMES
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