Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children

Title

en_US Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: rus

en_US First edition

en_US Gleb Botkin and Marina Botkin Schweitzer

Creator

en_US Botkin, Gleb See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Botkin, Gleb

en_US King, Greg (essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:20Z

en_US 1997-06

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US What one finds in this fascinating book is the albums, done as gifts for the tsar's children, of the son Gleb of the tsar's personal physician Dr. Eugene Botkin. For extended periods, young Gleb apparently entertained the royal children with his sketches and stories. Gleb's father stayed loyal to the tsar after he was deposed and sent to Tobolsk, and Gleb and his sister came along. The pictures and stories in this book were created during this time of the Provisional Government (March to October, 1917) while the royal family was still at Tobolsk. When the royal family was sent by the Bolsheviks to Ekaterinburg, Dr. Botkin went with them, leaving his own children behind. He was killed with the tsar's family in July, 1918. Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, Gleb was forced to entrust the albums to a friend, who later returned them to him. What interests me in the book is not the historical parodies, well summarized on XIV-XV, but the several fable-watercolors, done in 1914-15 and appearing in Book III: Krylov's Quartet, LS, and Krylov's The Monkey and the Looking Glass. There is also an unidentified fable that I would love to pin down!

Identifier

en_US 679451420

en_US 3005 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78428

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Villard Books: Random House

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ7.B655 Lo 1996 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole