Larissa Jermilowa
Autore di The Last Tsar (Temporis)
Sull'Autore
Opere di Larissa Jermilowa
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ermilova, Larissa Yakovlevna
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Russia
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 29
- Popolarità
- #460,290
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
It does not take much to make me happy, but this book failed. For starters, there were too many pages of background on previous Tsars, from Alexander onwards: at least a third of the book was devoted to a subject other than Nicholas.
The photographs were not that well chosen - too grand and not personal enough, and the caption information was minimal and poorly presented.
The text too was a let-down: while not necessarily wanted a tabloid-type biography, a little sensation and levity would have been a welcome relief in this dry and dreary account.… (altro)