“Wonderful eccentrics and originals” (1898) – the last and, by general confession, the most fun, but at the same time, the cognitive book of Mikhail Pilyaev (1842-1899). A famous writer and journalist knocks down a boring gloss from Russian life – from the images of the great in deeds and the extravagant persons in everyday life. Outstanding – Suvorovs, Arkhars, Golitsyn and Tolstoy … Other, already forgotten princes and counts, nobles and commoners. Everything, as for the selection – extraordinary people and “bizarre toys of good old time”, erased in dust or lost in the reservoirs of historical storage facilities.
The originals are Russian extravagations, miracles, crazy heads … Before you is a real office of domestic rarities.
Author
Pylyaev Mikhail Ivanovich
Publisher
Olmamediagrupp/Enlightenment, 2014
Series
Gift publications. Classic in illustrations
6+
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