Upcoming Books 2017

[Marie Valerie]

New Year, new books: The first german biography about Marie Alexandrowna, available from March 1 2017

The author also wrote books about Alexandra (Charlotte of Prussia) and Maria (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)


https://www.amazon.de/dp/3806234361/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=CSMA5S9LEZ2&coliid=I23ETU4TS84BBD

[Helen]

To be published in January / February 2017:
"Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine in Italy - 1893" by Petra H. Kleinpenning.
Print edition: 60 pages, including illustrations.
E-book: EPUB format.

In the spring of 1893, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine and her brother Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and went on a holiday to the Italian cities of Florence and Venice. This publication provides a simple day-to-day summary of their trip based on information from archival documents, contemporary newspapers, letters, memoirs and diaries.

[Helen]

"Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine in Italy - 1893"
Author: Petra H. Kleinpenning
ISBN number of print edition: 9789402157499 (60 pages)
ISBN number of e-book edition: 9789402159035 (EPUB format)
Publisher: Brave New Books

"In the spring of 1893, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and his younger sister Princess Alix, the future wife of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, went on a holiday to the Italian cities of Florence and Venice. They admired works of art in museums and churches, rode through the parks of Florence and the surrounding hills, and enjoyed gondola rides on the canals and in the lagoon of Venice. They also spent time with relatives, including Queen Victoria, Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Count and Countess Gustav of Erbach-Schönberg. The many beautiful things they saw and the relaxed family gatherings they held made memories which they cherished for many years. This publication provides a simple day-to-day summary of their trip based on information from archival documents, contemporary newspapers, letters, memoirs and diaries."

E-book available at https://www.kobo.com/nl/en/ebook/grand-duke-ernst-ludwig-and-princess-alix-of-hesse-and-by-rhine-in-italy-1893

[Ally Kumari]

Piotrovsky, M - 1917 Romanov & Revolution
http://www.hoogstraten.nl/theshop/product_info.php?cPath=21_22_42&products_id=926



A unique exhibition entitled 1917. Romanovs & Revolution. The End of Monarchy will open at the Hermitage Amsterdam in February 2017, exactly a century after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. This will be the only showing of the exhibition in Western Europe. It will include over 250 items from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and the Artillery Museum in St Petersburg. Using films, photographs, paintings, objets d’art and historical documents, the show will tell the gripping story of fashionable St Petersburg and the art that flourished there in the early twentieth century, of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, and of the explosive political and social circumstances of their reign. Exhibitioncatalogue of the Hermitage in Amsterdam. 216 pages, illustrated, paperback, in English

[GDSophie]

I believe Helen Rappaport is writing a new book with a release date of June 28, 2018 called 'The Race to Save the Romanovs' which goes into detail about why the Ally Governments and European royal families did not/tried not to save them. Apparently she's going to explore this topic with new information as she can get access to things we, the public, haven't seen before.

[Ally Kumari]

Arc of Utopia : The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
https://www.bookdepository.com/Arc-Utopia-Lesley-Chamberlain/9781780238524



The French Revolution of 1789 had grand humanitarian aims that would one day inspire the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russians took the French revolutionary agenda and reinforced it with sturdy German philosophy to form a beautiful vision in which remnants of theology combined with the power of art as a force for change.   The Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at the German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. Lesley Chamberlain relates how the influential German philosophers Kant, Schiller and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how art and philosophy exploded on the streets of Russia, with a long-repressed people uniquely reinventing the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Some of the greatest names of nineteenth-century Russia, from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky, defined their visions for Russia in relation to the German enthusiasm for revolutionary France. Published to tie in with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, The Arc of Utopia provides an original view of the Revolution that links the final upheaval of October 1917 with an astonishing period in art, street drama and poetry.

[TimM]

Sound interesting.

Of course, this beautiful period didn't last very long.

[Dru]

https://www.facebook.com/DiaryOfOlgaRomanovRoyalWitness/photos/a.124297104286228.15365.113360175379921/1490122197703705/?type=3&theater

Grand Duchess Maria's 1913 diary, translated by Helen Azar, will be available in October!

[Dru]

Update: Maria's 1913 diary is scheduled to be released next week!

[Dru]

Update: Maria's 1913 diary is scheduled to be released next week!

Maria's diary is now available on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Grand-Duchess-Maria-Nikolaevna/dp/1546657487/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1507404335&sr=8-4&keywords=helen+azar

[Jeremiah]

Thanks Dru. Just got it!

[Ally Kumari]

Helen Azar ´s book "1913 Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna" is now available on Bookdepository! (which means you can get the book with free shipping worldwide!)

https://www.bookdepository.com/1913-Diary-of-Grand-Duchess-Maria-Nikolaevna-Helen-Azar/9781546657484?ref=grid-view&qid=1508515271945&sr=1-6

[Greg_King]

Just to add that the new book by Penny Wilson and myself on Mayerling, Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs, will be published November 14 in the US and December 16 in the UK, from St. Martin’s/Macmillan (also available on Kindle).  Discussion has been in the Habsburg Thread under Crown Prince Rudolf, and we’ve been posting more details on Facebook.

[JamesAPrattIII]

on youtube "writing fun ep 158" has Helen Azar discussing the above book on Maria's 1913 Diary