Land of the Firebird. Beauty of Old Russia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1980
Edition: First Edition

Description: 493 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: Land of the Firebird is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere."

ISBN: 024110517x