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The title of this masterly history comes from War and Peace, when the aristocratic heroine, Natasha Rostova, finds herself intuitively picking up the rhythm of a peasant dance ... One of those books that, at times, makes you wonder how you have so far managed to do without it'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Thrilling, dizzying ... I would defy any reader not to be captivated'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOrlando Figes\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePeasant Russia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCivil War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA People's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatasha's Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whisperers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJust Send Me Word\u003c\/i\u003e. 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A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Natasha's Dance, The Europeans \u003c\/i\u003eis richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make a living, shuttling back and forth across the whole continent from the British Isles to Imperial Russia, as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Europeans \u003c\/i\u003eis Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge changes through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle. Events which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premieres and bestsellers came into existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201467842738,"sku":"9780141979434","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141979434_c44e7ad1-f5d7-45fa-a3d2-85426fe1483e.jpg?v=1786011768"},{"product_id":"9781526631756","title":"The Story of Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: \u003ci\u003eSunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' \u003c\/b\u003eANNE APPLEBAUM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' \u003c\/b\u003eSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA great historian at the peak of his powers' \u003c\/b\u003eWILLIAM DALRYMPLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[An] excellent short study’ \u003c\/b\u003eMAX HASTINGS, \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you really want to understand Putin’s Russia today, anchored in its past of myths, then you simply have to read Figes’s superb account\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eANTONY BEEVOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eA lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation’s past have been used to shape its autocratic present’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A valuable, instructive overview'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past – and how they can inform its present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo other country has been so divided over its own past as Russia. 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Pitting the Tsar's empire against an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire, it was the first conflict to use photography, the telegraph and newspapers; a war over territory, from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf; a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populistbelief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land; it was the original 'total war'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Orlando Figes' vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. 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