Henri Troyat

A biography of nineteenth-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, discussing his childhood and youth, his stint in the military, his discovery of Europe, his relationships, and his writing.

Tolstoy

Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening conditions. Men were instruments of pleasure. The weak had to perish. The future belonged to men - and sometimes a man could have the outward appearance of a woman. She was proof of that.This literary tour de force paints an enthralling picture of Catherine, her seductions, her coaxings and her phenomenal devotion to politics and work, but it also brings the Russian court - with all its intrigues - brilliantly to life.

Catherine the Great

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Ivan IV, the first Grand Duke of Moscow to take the title Czar, was one of the most violent and demented rulers in history. Both sadist and mystic, he claimed to be both the blood successor to Caesar Augustus and God¿s vicar on earth. Devoted associates and sworn enemies alike perished amid hideous tortures. Villages, towns and an entire city were obliterated; he even murdered his own son in a burst of fury. And yet, by conquering much of the territory that became 20th century Russia, he also forged an orderly empire out of the barbarous and disordered world into which he was born. Henri Troyat, the Prix Goncourt ¿winning biographer of Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Turgenev and other giants of Russian history brings to life Russia¿s bloodiest czar creating the unforgettable portrait of a man driven mad with the delirium of his divine right to power.

Ivan the Terrible

Les semailles et les moissons t5 la rencontre

Le moscovite

les feux du matin

Terribles tsarines

Catherine The Great

Les Dames De Siberie (J'ai Lu)

La rouquine et autres nouvelles fantastiques

Dostoyevski

The Life of Dostoevsky

Firebrand

Rasputin

Işık Ergüden

Z. Canan Özatalay

Lev Tolstoy

"The Red and White," Troyat's previous novel about the Danovs during the revolution, was one of the outstanding books of 1957. "Strangers on Earth" has the same distinction in the writing and relates an even more enthralling story, with more penetration into character. While it is a sequel to the first, it can be read on its own. Once again the background is firsthand and authentic; Troyat fled with his own Russian family to Paris.

Strangers on Earth

Strangers in the Land

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Le Sac et la cendre. Étrangers sur la terre

Poignante et terrible confrontation de deux hommes, de deux idéaux, la neige en deuil place une tragédie de l'honneur dans le cadre splendide et inhumain des Alpes. Un grand avion venant des Indes s'est écrasé sur un pic neigeux. Les passions humaines les plus diverses éclatent devant le danger d'une expédition de secours.

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La Neige en deuil

Henri Troyat

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