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About the Book

"The Czar's Madman" combines the elements of a gripping historical novel with the profound sensibilities of a great writer wrestling with the deepest moral issues of our day. When Colonel Timotheus von Bock, a Baltic nobleman and a favorite of the czar, returns a hero from the battlefields of Europe in 1813, he is convinced that new and better ways are coming and is determined to play his part in bringing them about. But he soon scandalizes his fellow aristocrats, first by marrying a peasant's daughter, then by condemning the czar's tyrannical rule. The reaction is prompt: von Bock is banished from his estate and imprisoned for nine years. Von Bock's story is the main thread in a richly worked tapestry evoking Russia and its Baltic provinces after the fall of Napoleon. Recounting this compelling tale, Jaan Kross takes the reader deep into the passions of a time and country that foreshadow the tragedies of our own century.

About the Author :
Born in 1920 in Estonia, Jaan Kross was arrested by the Soviets in 1946 and spent nine years in exile and labor camps in the Soviet Union's eastern regions. He has published eleven works of fiction, including the highly acclaimed "The Czar's Madman," as well as four volumes of poetry. Although English-speaking audiences are only now discovering his work, his books have been translated into twenty-two languages and have sold more than one million copies worldwide.

Review :
""The Czar's Madmen" is a joy to read. . . . The details of its era are as vivid as its totally believable and entrancing people. A strong, carefully crafted, thoughtful, and deeply moving book." -- "The New York Times Book Review" "A provocative, original, and highly political . . . critique [of] imperial Russia's relationship with its Baltic province and, by extension, the authoritarian regimes of our own times." — "Publishers Weekly"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781565841215
  • Publisher: The New Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The New Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1565841212
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Estonian
  • Width: 139 mm


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