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A Kingdom and a Village

A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
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A Kingdom and a Village

Von: Simon Morrison
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 An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics

The city of Moscow stands at the center of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, 11 time zones, and nearly 150 million people, some 13 million of whom live in the capital. In A Kingdom and a Village, acclaimed historian Simon Morrison offers a vividly rendered history of Russia’s heart and soul, tracing its transformation from a “big village”—the demeaning nickname the St. Peterburg nobility gave to its provincial neighbor—into a spectacular metropolis of vast geopolitical import.

That arc is the stuff of dramatic, violent, stranger-than-fiction historical narrative: the last century alone has featured invasions and costly battles, the destruction (and reconstruction) of sacred cultural and religious landmarks, and the collapse of the Soviet republic—not to mention the rise of an authoritarian leader who is a keen student of Russian history. Morrison reaches back further still, to the founding of the place we now know as Moscow as a fortress on a river nearly a millennium ago. In the centuries that followed, any number of external forces—from Tatar Mongols and Swedes to Napoleon and Hitler—set their sights on Moscow, reinforcing its self-conception as both a glittering prize and a site of perpetual defense and resurrection.

Drawing on a rich array of archival materials, from the birchbark scrawls that record the oldest layer of Russian civilization to the articles in European newspapers heralding the opening of the magnificent Bolshoi Theater, Morrison brings to life the bloody power struggles; cultural marvels; excruciating famines, droughts, storms, and fires that have shaped and reshaped the city and reinforced its essential character.

With A Kingdom and a Village, Morrison makes a persuasive, even impassioned case that to understand Moscow is not only to unlock the spellbinding mysteries of Russia’s past but also, critically, to grasp the grim logic of its present. It is a magisterial biography of a place—and an essential guide to a people and a nation. Politik & Regierungen Russland

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“A Kingdom and a Village is a magisterial account of Moscow that reveals the city’s history and something of its soul through countless interwoven stories and colorful characters. This book is a gripping and enlightening journey filled with war and peace; tyrants and revolutionaries; famine, pestilence and plague; music, literature and theater; Christianity and Communism; death and rebirth. At a time when Russia is once again trying to remake the borders of Europe and the nature of politics in the world, Simon Morrison gives us a new way to understand this vast and ever-changing country through this singularly compelling capital city.”
—Ben Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of After the Fall

“A gem of a book, exploring the people, the fables, and the history of Moscow, one of the great cities of the world. With vivid writing, and an astonishing body of research, Simon Morrison creates a mesmerizing tale of how Moscow came to be. Read it slowly, wander through the Russian capital with him, and you will understand when he says: ‘Moscow is hard to love, but I love it.’”
—Jill Dougherty, author of My Russia

"Simon Morrison’s riveting biography of Moscow is breathtaking in its span, covering architecture, music, Russian leaders’ decisions and the ordinary people’s response, society, institutions, and much more. It is also Morrison’s beautifully written story of his personal relations with the country that began in 1990 during Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika, when he visited Moscow for the first time. It is a love story that has continued to this day."
—Nina Khrushcheva, co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps

“A preeminent historian of Russian history and culture, Simon Morrison is the perfect biographer of Moscow, one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic cities.”
—Shaun Walker, author of The Illegals
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