Solomon Volkov: 6 books

The definitive cultural biography of the “Venice of the North” and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy, written by Russian emerge and acclaimed cultural historian, Solomon Volkov. Long considered to be the mad dream of an imperious autocrat—the "Venice of the North," conceived...

In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family. Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists...

“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later...

From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and...

Basata su testimonianze, memorie, interviste, questa bellissima storia della cultura a Pietroburgo coinvolge tanti nomi molto noti a livello mondiale, da Brodskij a Puškin, da Balancčin a Nabokov, da Dostoevskij a Achmatova. Solomon Volkov ha il pregio e il prestigio che gli permettono di condurre...

Solomon Volkov documentato con testimonianze e memorie racconta il rapporto conflittuale tra il duce dell'umanità progressiva, Stalin, e un genio della musica, Šostakovič