Suzanne Massie

Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.

Used.

Item #4985
ISBN: 0671230514

Hardcover
493 pp., illustrated
Dust jacket

'Land of the Firebird' is a Wonderful and Engagin 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."

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