![]() ![]() The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes- sweeping, suspenseful, masterful. How the Russians came to tell their story and to reinvent it as they went along is not only a vital aspect of their history, but is also the best means we have of understanding the country today. A man who believes that areas of the Ukraine long belong to Russia and will stop at nothing to ‘get them back. A man who has studied Russian History and these myths. From Boris and Gleb, the first saints of the Russian Church, to the crowning of sixteen-year-old Ivan the Terrible in a candlelit cathedral and from Catherine the Great, riding out in a green uniform to arrest her husband at his palace, to the bitter last days of the Romanovs, Orlando Figes takes us on an intimate and enthralling journey through the stories that have shaped Russia. Figes argues all of this has been building towards the rule of Vladimir Putin, a modern autocracy born in the Soviet Union. ![]() The Story of Russia begins in the first millennium, when Russia's lands were first settled by the Slavs, and ends with Putin in the third. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putins war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russias actions. 'Who controls the past controls the future. ![]()
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