From the Book - First edition.
The first Romanovs : from Tsar Mikhail to Peter I
Kantemir, Lomonosov, and Barkov
Catherine the Great and the culture of her era
Paul I and Alexander I; Karamzin and Zhukovsky
Alexander I, Zhukovsky, and young Pushkin
Gogol, Ivanov, and the end of the Nicholas I era
Alexander II, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
Herzen, Tolstoy, and the women's issue
Tchaikovsky and homosexuality in imperial Russia
Dostoevsky and the Romanovs
Alexander III, the Wanderers, and Mussorgsky
Nicholas II and Lenin as art connoisseurs.
