Лучшие книги Алексиса С. Трубецкого

Крымская война 1853-1856 гг. решительно изменила историю Европы. Россия вышла из нее в таком состоянии, что всем стала очевидна необходимость реформ, произошедших в середине века. Но для европейских стран, как и для Османской империи, потрясения также не прошли бесследно.

Книга об императоре Александре 1 - это одновременно историческое повествование и детективная история, в которой автор - Алексей Трубецкой, потомок старинного русского княжеского рода и известный историк, - приподнимает завесу тайны, окружавшей смерть царя. Автор приводит убедительные доказательства того, что Александр I инсценировал свою смерть и провел остаток дней странствующим сибирским старцем-отшельником Федором Кузьмичом.

The epic history of the explorers and adventurers who risked -- and sometimes lost -- their lives in the quest to conquer and claim the Arctic.

Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship and horrors endured by those who were drawn to the northern latitudes. For centuries the major world powers sponsored teams of explorers seeking trade routes as well as the chance to claim new territories. These commercial interests brought them into contact with natives, who at first saw white crews die in the forbidding landscape they called home only to later succumb to disease, alcohol, and the drastic environmental changes wrought by global trade.

At a time when global warming is drastically altering the region, Arctic Obsession chronicles an age when the Arctic remained one of the last unconquered places on Earth.

In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded Russia in what was to become the Crimean War. In the months that followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation and freezing in a medieval conflict fought in a modern age. But what is rarely appreciated is that this extraordinary struggle was fought not only in the Crimea, but also along the Danube, but in the Arctic Ocean, in the Baltic and Pacific. Few wars in history reveal more confusion of purpose or have had greater unintended consequences. Alexis Troubezkoy's new history traces the causes of this most senseless of wars and sketches a vivid picture of the age which made it possible, interweaving descriptions of the Russian, Turkish and British armies with the principals of the drama — Napoleon III, Marshal St. Arnaud, Lord Raglan, the great Russian engineer Todleban, Florence Nightingale, Nicholas I, and his magnificently terrible Russian empire.