Description
About the Author
Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).
Reviews
This is a remarkable book...The book has an almost encyclopedic character. Read this book. Cover to cover. Then give it to your colleagues, friends, students, postal carriers, and pets. Hopefully, someone among them will choose to emulate it. We need more books like this. * Paul W. Werth, The Russian Review *
The overall result of Martin's meticulous research and fascinating narrative is a highly original, compelling and kaleidoscopic picture of one extraordinary individual's journey through time and space in the context of the Age of Revolution. * Patrick O'Meara, Slavonic and East European Review *
Martin's account of Rosenstrauch's life nonetheless manages to weave together the [extant] sources into a riveting account of life across Central and Eastern Europe [in the] late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will surely be an engaging read for scholars and students alike. * Catherine Gibson, Canadian-American Slavic Studies *
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars is equally fascinating to read either as a novel a la Honore de Balzac or as a manual in how to find the adequate source material to reconstruct the life story of an ordinary man. * Kristian Gerner, History: Reviews of New Books *
The magic of the book lies within its densely researched chapters, which I strongly recommend. Readers, like Rosenstrauch's theater audiences, will be much enlightened and even entertained. * Victoria Frede, H-Net Reviews *
Alexander M. Martin's From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768-1870 won the prestigious 2023 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, and deservedly so. The origin of this book is such an extraordinary example of historical detective work that it is worth retelling. * Russell E. Martin, The Kritika *
Awards
Winner of Winner, 2023 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Shortlisted, 2022 Marc Raeff Prize, Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association for the year's best book in that field.
Book Information
ISBN 9780192844378
Author Alexander M. Martin
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 163mm * 30mm