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Solovki

The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

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Solovki

The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

div Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery—once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe—Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki’s glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site—only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the “mother of the Gulag” system. From its first intrepid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovki—like Russia itself—has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery. /DIV

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Forgotten Heroes Zulu & Basuto Wars including Medal Roll 1877-8-9

By: Roy Dutton

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Forgotten Heroes Zulu & Basuto Wars including Medal Roll 1877-8-9

By: Roy Dutton

A work of reference, with details of the Colonial and Imperial forces engaged in the Zulu and Basuto Wars between 1877 to 1879. Over 36,600 men are listed with medal entitlement, causality lists and, troop deployments together with numerous biographical details. Also includes first-hand accounts of the many campaigns, with illustrated maps. An invaluable guide for both medal collectors and historians. These men at great personal sacrifice helped to build an Empire, on which the sun would never set.

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Solovki

The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

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The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

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Forgotten Heroes Zulu & Basuto Wars including Medal Roll 1877-8-9

Forgotten Heroes Zulu & Basuto Wars including Medal Roll 1877-8-9

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