Land of the Firebird

Download or read book Land of the Firebird written by Suzanne Massie and published by Hearttree Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Land of the Firebird' is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere.