Intimate empire : the Mansurov family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855-1936 / Alexa von Winning.
"After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades before 1917. Leaving Home tells the...
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