The Stolen Prince: Gannibal, Adopted Son of Peter the Great, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's First Black Intellectual
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0066212650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Indeed, throughout the biography we periodically lose sight of Gannibal altogether. . Traveling to the Logone Delta in Chad, Barnes impressively sleuths Gannibal's likely origins. Despite meticulously tracing his subject's career (even visiting a ruin of one of Gannibal's fortifications), evoking the racism of the Enlightenment and detailing the strife of Gannibal's first, singularly unsuccessful marriage, this biography lacks a historical purpose or thesis, hovering tentatively around a cluster of facts. 16 pages of b&w photos. (June 6)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Channen Mack said A captivating half detective, half biographical novel. An African man in Russia? Sounds far fetched but it's true Abram Petrovich Gannibal was one such man who came from slavery to preeminence in 17th century Russia. This novel attempts to find exactly where this enigmatic man came from and how he became a favorite of Tsar Peter the Great. Using clues from Gannibals letters, which reveal him to have an elusive personality, and accounts from poet Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, which are a more fiction than fact, the author attempts to track Gannibals journey from his African homeland, through the Ottoman Empire and finally to Russia. Along the way a cast of other colorfu. "Surprising story of a Black Ex-Slave" according to John Matlock. In this book we are treated to a fascinating story of the court of Peter the Great. The story of how diplomats were acting in the Russian court at the time, the internal politics, the manipulations of the whole system is quite fascinating.At the same time, what I found puzzling was how this one lad, captured as a slave from (presumably) Chad, he was made a page in the sultan's harem, and from there to the Russian court. Not stopping there, proceeded to become, as the subtitle says, 'Europe's First Black Intellectual.'Accomplished in mathematics and military theory, he was a designer of fortifications, friend (or at leas. Laura Lopez said thorough and fun. Thorough, absorbing, fascinating Solid research, and a trick for the reader, as if it was fiction. This book is a pleasure.
Soviet and Russian Studies and History