Rusia

Brief Description: Translation of: Russka: the novel of Russia. Brief Description: "Guerreros y eremitas, boyardos y siervos, haeroes y heroainas romaanticos, ancianas damas ricas, buscadores de fortuna y exiliados? Los personajes de Rusia habitan en un mundo contradictorio de bosques, estepas, iconos y hachas, fe ortodoxa y persecuciaon a los judaios, hermosas iglesias, palacios magnaificos y pueblos miserables; de arte popular ruso y operas suntuosas, de Tolstaoi y Lenin, Chaikovsky y Rasputain. Desde las tribus naomadas de las grandes planicies de Eurasia hasta hoy en daia, a travaes de la vida de un pequeano pueblo al este de Moscau, Rutherfurd sigue las tribulaciones de cinco familias desde la invasiaon taartara hasta el reinado de Ivaan el Terrible y los salvajes cosacos, la dinastaia de Pedro y Catalina hasta el drama de la Revoluciaon y los posteriores sucesos contemporaaneos..."--Brief Description: Story of four families covering 1800 years of Russian history. Marc Notes: Translation of: Russka: the novel of Russia.; Guerreros y eremitas, boyardos y siervos, heroes y heroinas romanticos, ancianas damas ricas, buscadores de fortuna y exiliados? Los personajes de Rusia habitan en un mundo contradictorio de bosques, estepas, iconos y hachas, fe ortodoxa y persecucion a los judios, hermosas iglesias, palacios magnificos y pueblos miserables;de arte popular ruso y operas suntuosas, de Tolstoi y Lenin, Chaikovsky y Rasputin. Desde las tribus nomadas de las grandes planicies de Eurasia hasta hoy en dia, a traves de la vida de un pequeno pueblo al este de Moscu, Rutherfurd sigue las tribulaciones de cinco familias desde la invasion tartara hasta el reinado de Ivan el Terrible y los salvajes cosacos, la dinastia de Pedro y Catalina hasta el drama de la Revolucion y los posteriores sucesos contemporaneos...--; Provided by publisher; Story of four families covering 1800 years of Russian history."

Contributor Bio:  Rutherfurd, Edward Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, England, and was educated in Wiltshire and at Cambridge. He has since lived on both sides of the Atlantic, in Dublin and New York, but he returned to his roots to write his first novel, the best-selling Sarum, a history of Salisbury. This was followed by the best-selling Russka, a sweeping history of Russia from the cossack horsemen to the Bolshevik revolution. Until the 1980s, Edward Rutherfurd pursued a business career -- he attended Stanford Business School, worked for W. H. Smith, and was employed by Tory Party Central Office. As a child, he had been fascinated by the novels of C. S. Forester, Henty, and the historical romances of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His grandmother, Evelyn Winch, was a well-known romantic novelist of the 1930s. Rutherfurd was also influenced by the novels of James Michener, such as Covenant and Texas, and saw that no one had attempted a similar approach in the United Kingdom. Rutherfurd gave up his secure day job and spent two years researching and writing Sarum. When it was half-finished, and funds were running low, he realized he needed to find an agent. He approached agent Gill Coleridge with a few chapters and a synopsis. Within a month, Century bought the book in England, and the novel was auctioned in the United States. Ten years later, Sarum is still selling all over the world. Edward Rutherfurd currently lives outside Dublin, Ireland. "From the Hardcover edition."