Wives of the Russian Crown. Book 1
15 hrs. 36 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Larisa Vasilyeva
Author
Larisa Vasilyeva
Narrator
Valentin Aksentiuk
Narrator
Valentin Aksentiuk
A woman in Russian history—the subject that the domestic writer Larisa Vasilyeva has devoted her work to repeatedly. “Wives of the Russian Crown” is recommended not only to erudite history lovers, but to everyone who cares about the “women’s question.” The book is written in an unusually engaging manner: at once accessible and packed with curious details, vivid touches that illuminate the difficult fates of remarkable individuals in a new light.
Meanwhile, the genre of the work is quite serious—an historical and publicistic study. By the time the book was written, Larisa Vasilyeva already had the necessary experience working with such complex material; readers are likely familiar with her earlier works “The Kremlin Wives” and “Children of the Kremlin,” published shortly before “Wives of the Russian Crown.” In any case, all three books formed a single series.
“The Wives of the Russian Crown” covers ten centuries of life at the heights of power. Grand duchesses, queens, empresses—from Saint Olga to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Women—famous, all-powerful, radiant, and some forgotten, missing without a trace in monasteries and revived only on the pages of multi-volume dictionaries—while the secrets of the past are revealed vividly and sometimes not at all according to the canon. This is a story with a woman’s perspective: attentive, slightly sly, perceptive, and incredibly sensitive.
Women’s destinies in Russian history are full of bitterness and suffering, and at times even of mystical tragicism. A wife who has lost her husband and is ready to avenge him brutally and mercilessly to protect herself and her child; a frantic mother who tears herself toward the throne, sacrificing her four-year-old son. Russian queens who ruled with fire and sword, and foreign women who raised Russia’s culture to unprecedented heights. After all, witches and saints—essentially, history’s course was determined by their hand. The author of global bestsellers “The Kremlin Wives” and “Children of the Kremlin,” Larisa Vasilyeva reveals many secrets and makes woman clearly visible in the historical process.
Meanwhile, the genre of the work is quite serious—an historical and publicistic study. By the time the book was written, Larisa Vasilyeva already had the necessary experience working with such complex material; readers are likely familiar with her earlier works “The Kremlin Wives” and “Children of the Kremlin,” published shortly before “Wives of the Russian Crown.” In any case, all three books formed a single series.
“The Wives of the Russian Crown” covers ten centuries of life at the heights of power. Grand duchesses, queens, empresses—from Saint Olga to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Women—famous, all-powerful, radiant, and some forgotten, missing without a trace in monasteries and revived only on the pages of multi-volume dictionaries—while the secrets of the past are revealed vividly and sometimes not at all according to the canon. This is a story with a woman’s perspective: attentive, slightly sly, perceptive, and incredibly sensitive.
Women’s destinies in Russian history are full of bitterness and suffering, and at times even of mystical tragicism. A wife who has lost her husband and is ready to avenge him brutally and mercilessly to protect herself and her child; a frantic mother who tears herself toward the throne, sacrificing her four-year-old son. Russian queens who ruled with fire and sword, and foreign women who raised Russia’s culture to unprecedented heights. After all, witches and saints—essentially, history’s course was determined by their hand. The author of global bestsellers “The Kremlin Wives” and “Children of the Kremlin,” Larisa Vasilyeva reveals many secrets and makes woman clearly visible in the historical process.
06:10
00-01-vstuplenie
06:39
00-02-s-tochki-zreniya-zhenschiny
06:59
00-03-pochemu-zhyony-korony
10:02
01-00-esli-by-ne-roksana
06:16
02-00-kievskaya-rus-knyaginya-olga
06:03
03-01-fakt-i-legenda
06:37
03-02-fakt-i-legenda
04:23
04-00-beliche-koleso
08:11
05-00-mstitelnitsa
07:42
06-00-pochemu-knyaginya-olga-spokoyna
06:40
07-00-hozyayka
07:24
08-00-yazychnitsa-i-hristianka
05:41
09-00-neafishirovannyy-pohod-olgi-v-konstantinopol
10:31
10-00-varyazhka-slavyanka-ili
05:12
11-00-zagadka-vozrasta
05:43
12-00-mat-i-syn
05:41
13-00-letom-968-goda
00:34
14-00-tropar-knyagini-olgi
05:46
15-00-zhyony-vladimira-krestitelya-dom-knyazya-vladimira
07:10
16-00-rabyni-rabov
06:22
17-00-russkie-i-yazycheskie-svadby
10:06
18-00-dvoemuzhnitsa-grekinya-i-gordaya-rogneda
07:43
19-00-chego-ne-mozhet-hitraya-sdelat
07:18
20-00-tsarevna-anna
07:10
21-00-esli-ona-prava-ya-prozreyu
06:04
22-00-mest-grekini
07:07
23-00-razrushitel-hazarskogo-hanstva
10:36
24-01-ingigerda-irina-anna
11:45
24-02-ingigerda-irina-anna
09:47
25-00-polskie-svyazi-ili-elizaveta-gertruda-i-dobrogneva-mariya
08:25
26-00-v-polshe
11:01
27-00-elizaveta-yaroslavna-muza-poeta
09:45
28-00-skandal
04:33
29-00-razvyazannyy-uzel-rognedy
09:33
30-00-beliche-koleso
07:22
31-00-slyozy-machehi
07:01
32-01-hristova-nevesta
06:38
32-02-hristova-nevesta
08:08
33-01-volochayki
07:54
33-02-volochayki
06:57
34-01-angliyskaya-mat-yuriya-dolgorukova
06:10
34-02-angliyskaya-mat-yuriya-dolgorukova
05:31
35-00-slyozy-materi
07:21
36-00-mstislavny
07:08
37-01-efrosinya-polotskaya-zhizn-posle-smerti
07:39
37-02-efrosinya-polotskaya-zhizn-posle-smerti
07:26
37-03-efrosinya-polotskaya-zhizn-posle-smerti
09:07
38-00-myortvyy-uzel-dom-yuriya-dolgorukova
06:36
39-01-ulita-moskovita
05:48
39-02-ulita-moskovita
08:36
40-01-autodafe
07:36
40-02-autodafe
09:13
41-00-12-y-vek-znatnaya-zhenschina
05:29
42-00-petr-i-fevroniya
04:47
43-00-pervaya-zhertva-batyya
08:38
44-00-efrosinya-suzdalskaya-i-eyo-sestra
07:21
45-01-zolotoy-yarlyk-i-sudba-anny-kashinskoy
07:42
45-02-zolotoy-yarlyk-i-sudba-anny-kashinskoy
07:21
45-03-zolotoy-yarlyk-i-sudba-anny-kashinskoy
05:17
46-00-beliche-koleso
05:14
47-00-rozhdenie-rossii-bitva-za-syna
11:43
48-00-beliche-koleso
09:22
49-01-velikaya-evdokiya
07:39
49-02-velikaya-evdokiya
07:53
50-01-sofiya-doch-vitovta
07:54
50-02-sofiya-doch-vitovta
10:22
51-00-zolotoy-poyas
05:46
52-00-mariya-mat-ivana-iii
07:20
53-01-sofiya-doch-fomy-paleologa
06:34
53-02-sofiya-doch-fomy-paleologa
08:13
53-03-sofiya-doch-fomy-paleologa
09:31
54-01-ozherele-sazhene
07:36
54-02-ozherele-sazhene
05:29
55-00-beliche-koleso
08:19
56-01-zhestkoe-uslovie
09:56
56-02-zhestkoe-uslovie
08:27
56-03-zhestkoe-uslovie
05:59
57-00-nezakonnaya-svadba
07:45
58-00-traditsionnaya-russkaya-velikoknyazheskaya-svadba
06:32
59-01-smelost-eleny
06:23
59-02-smelost-eleny
05:46
60-00-zhyony-siney-borody-dom-ivana-groznogo
06:45
61-00-shest-zhyon
07:11
62-01-anastasiya-romanovna
08:54
62-02-anastasiya-romanovna
06:52
62-03-anastasiya-romanovna
05:35
63-01-litso-domostroya
06:17
63-02-litso-domostroya
07:43
64-01-svoevolnitsy-i-zhertvy
08:04
64-02-svoevolnitsy-i-zhertvy
07:58
64-03-svoevolnitsy-i-zhertvy
04:08
65-00-vasilisa-prekrasnaya
06:06
66-01-angliyskoe-svatovstvo
06:44
66-02-angliyskoe-svatovstvo
10:46
67-01-mariya-nagaya-i-gibel-tsarevicha-dmitriya
10:10
67-02-mariya-nagaya-i-gibel-tsarevicha-dmitriya
07:39
68-00-beliche-koleso
07:23
69-00-karty-v-smutnoy-igre-dom-smutnogo-vremeni
08:11
70-01-deystvie-pervoe
07:39
70-02-deystvie-pervoe
10:56
71-00-sudba-marii-korolevy-livonii
07:00
72-01-plach-ksenii-godunovoy
07:46
72-02-plach-ksenii-godunovoy
06:38
72-03-plach-ksenii-godunovoy
05:51
73-01-poslednyaya-karta-marii-nagoy
06:01
73-02-poslednyaya-karta-marii-nagoy
07:43
74-01-marina
08:14
74-02-marina
07:37
74-03-marina
08:03
75-01-kak-zhila-marina-v-tushinskom-tabore
08:10
75-02-kak-zhila-marina-v-tushinskom-tabore
04:44
76-00-ot-staritsy-do-devitsy-dom-mihaila-i-alekseya-romanovyh
03:20
77-00-pravo-potsaritsa
09:44
78-00-kaprizy-inokini-marfy
05:57
79-01-bolnye-tsarskie-nevesty
05:45
79-02-bolnye-tsarskie-nevesty
08:27
80-01-kremlevskaya-zolushka-posle-svadby
08:17
80-02-kremlevskaya-zolushka-posle-svadby
09:12
80-03-kremlevskaya-zolushka-posle-svadby
06:10
81-01-koldovstvo
06:23
81-02-koldovstvo
05:27
82-00-mariya-miloslavskaya
06:06
83-01-zagadki-prirody
06:11
83-02-zagadki-prirody
07:58
84-00-tayny-dvortsa
06:38
85-01-yavlenie-natali-kirillovny
07:57
85-02-yavlenie-natali-kirillovny
04:49
86-00-nesostoyavshayasya-tsaritsa
00:17
87-00-zvukoteks
