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Autumn of the Empire. The Diaries of Konstantin Romanov

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Autumn of the Empire. The Diaries of Konstantin Romanov
9.99 €
Diaries of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858-1915), on which the book is based - it is a chronicle of the fatal fall of the Romanov Empire, and a passionate confession of the troubled soul of the poet K.R., and ruthless analysis of his vicious feelings and red ideas, and pain-filled account of the misfortunes of his older brother, who was at the will of the royal uncle, first in jail, and then in lifelong exile under the supervision of psychiatrists. Russia did not forget the brothers: romances to the poems of K.R. were sung everywhere, the plot of his play "The King of the Jews" was used by M. Bulgakov in writing "The Master and Margarita", and the grateful countrymen in 1918 (already under the Bolsheviks!) organized a lavish funeral for Nikolai Konstantinovich, who turned the Hungry Steppe into a blooming oasis of "madness"....
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