Pavlovsk: The Life of A Russian Palace
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Pink boards and purple cloth spine with purple illustrated dustjacket. xx, 393 pp. Illustrated in bw and color. VG+/VG+. Item #36631
ISBN: 9780316549707
"Tells the tumultuous two-hundred-year life story of a palace -- a story of the peaks of beauty and the depths of bestiality. Throughout its two centuries of existence, Pavlovsk has had the mysterious power to inspire people to uncommon devotion, from its royal owners who built their dream of beauty in the eighteenth century to the hundreds of people who volunteered to rebuild it after its destruction during World War II. Pavlovsk is more than a building. It is a symbol of the invincible Russian spirit. ... Today, forty-six years later, Pavlovsk stands as a dramatic and touching testament to the eternal human quest for beauty in a forever disordered world. Far more than the story of a single palace, the story of Pavlovsk gives us new insight into both the history of old Russia and the changing Soviet Union of today." (dj).
OCLC: 21443818
Price: $20.00