Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia 1855-1918

by Philipp Blom and Veronica Buckley

The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the world's great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsar's gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500516685
• ISBN13: 9780500516683
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 11.7"