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The Czar's Madman by: Jaan Kross
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bookshelves: paper-read, one-penny-wonder, hardback, estonia, historical-fiction, summer-2013, translation, epistolatory-diary-blog, published-1978, slavic, under-500-ratings
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Nancy Oakes
Read from May 21 to June 20, 2013
spotted on Nancy's update
Translated by Anselm Hollo from the Finish edition by Ivo Iliste: so this is a translation of a translation uh-oh!
Estonia under Imperial Russia 1850
Opening: First, let me recall the occasion that impelled me to begin this journal.
Alexander I of Russia
Schlusselburg Fortress
The 'Mad' Tsar, Paul I
The translation is a bit ropey, however one becomes so engrossed in the story, that doesn't seem to matter. Started to get well and truly fed up with the journal-keeping bro' by page 100 or so.
Toyed between 3 and 4* and went for the lower because of the translation and that annoying brother. That said, I am pleased to have read another perspective on the era that leads up to the revolution.
Translated by Anselm Hollo from the Finish edition by Ivo Iliste: so this is a translation of a translation uh-oh!
Estonia under Imperial Russia 1850Opening: First, let me recall the occasion that impelled me to begin this journal.
Alexander I of Russia Schlusselburg Fortress The 'Mad' Tsar, Paul IThe translation is a bit ropey, however one becomes so engrossed in the story, that doesn't seem to matter. Started to get well and truly fed up with the journal-keeping bro' by page 100 or so.
Toyed between 3 and 4* and went for the lower because of the translation and that annoying brother. That said, I am pleased to have read another perspective on the era that leads up to the revolution.
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