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Red fortress : history and illusion in the Kremlin by Catherine Merridale, CATHERINE MERRIDALE, Catherine Merridale is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The extraordinary story of the Kremlin, from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted out. It is both a real place and an imaginative idea; a shorthand for a certain kind of secretive power, but also the heart of a specific Russian authenticity. Catherine Merridale's exceptional new book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and its sheer unexpectedness: an impregnable fortress which has repeatedly been devastated, a symbol of all that is Russian substantially created by Italians. The Kremlin is one of the very few buildings in the world which still keeps its original, late medieval function: as a palace, built to intimidate the ruler's subjects and to frighten foreign emissaries. Red Fortress brilliantly conveys this sense of the Kremlin as a stage set, nearly as potent under Vladimir Putin as it was under earlier, far more baleful inhabitants.

Who reads Red fortress : history and illusion in the Kremlin?

Author

Catherine Merridale, CATHERINE MERRIDALE, Catherine Merridale

Publisher

Metropolitan Books; Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805086805

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (82 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14