2019, ISBN: 9788862616812

Washington DC: National Geographic, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto; pp; 239, (i), colophon; profusely illustrated with sepia toned and color photographs; be… Altro …

Washington DC: National Geographic, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto; pp; 239, (i), colophon; profusely illustrated with sepia toned and color photographs; beige cloth and white paper covered boards lettered in gilt, genealogical endpapers, in a dust jacket. Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy-one of the greatest authors of all time-set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise. Between 1885 and 1910, Countess Tolstoy made more than a thousand photographs representing her entire world-from artists to aristocrats to peasants to family, from the Crimea to Moscow to the family estate 100 kilometers to the south. She also kept detailed diaries, which sweep us into fashionable balls and local gossip...magical scenes of winter in Russia...and devastating famine in the countryside. Sophia's works deepen our understanding of the era as well as of this amazing woman, who had thirteen children, battled a troubled marriage, and, though blessed with a creative life of her own, was so devoted to her husband's career that she hand-copied his great works Anna Karenina and War and Peace many times over., National Geographic, 2007, 4, Fidenza: Mattioli Edizioni, 2019. Fidenza, 2019; br., pp. 208, ill. col., tavv. col., cm 13x20. (Viaggi nella Storia). La seconda edizione riveduta e aggiornata della guida "Napoleone in Italia" ripercorre tutti i luoghi toccati, nel nostro Paese, sia dalla prima che dalla seconda campagna militare condotte dal Grande Corso. L'itinerario si snoda dalla Val d'Aosta, per poi scendere in Piemonte e Liguria e percorrere infine dalla Lombardia al Veneto sino al Friuli. Dopo la cronologia della vita dell'uomo che, nella sua epoca e pur con luci e ombre, ha cambiato significativamente la storia del Vecchio Continente, ecco ripercorsi nel dettaglio tutti i luoghi delle battaglie. Completano la guida alcuni itinerari prettamente turistici, che hanno lo scopo di abbinare alla visione (attuale) dei luoghi storici, turismo, relax e gastronomia., Mattioli Edizioni, 2019, 0<