Daniel H Shubin: 3 books
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
The Pioneering Rocket Scientist and His Cosmic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
How did such an intellectual giant spring up out of nowhere? Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was the founder of Russian astrophysics and cosmonautics. He was a self-taught scientist, inventor, philosopher and science fiction writer. He lost his hearing at age 10; he struggled in obscurity, earning...
Monastery Prisons
The History of Monasteries as Prisons, the Inmates Incarcerated There, Religiou
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2001
Little is known regarding prisons located inside Russian Orthodox Monasteries for the incarceration of religious dissenters and sectarians, political activists and criminals. This book focuses on the history of such a prison system and the lives and convictions of the inmates subject to incarceration...
by Daniel H. Shubin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Boris Godunov governed from the shadows during the 13-year reign of the borderline-retarded Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, heir to Tsar Ivan IV, and then for almost seven years in his own name. But by then the brutal death of the 9-year-old Tsarevich Dmitri Ivanovich by GodunovÂs henchmen, and the effects...