Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter Pomerantsev
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter’s famous incognito tours of shipyards in Holland were anticipated in the eagerness of earlier tsars to adopt the bureaucratic and diplomatic methods of the grander European monarchies. Russia’s rulers and churchmen drew on ideas of the magnificent and spiritual from the baroque art and architecture of Central Europe, and adapted them to local
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