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The Czar's Madman: A Novel
  
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The Czar's Madman: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Jaan Kross (Author), Anselm Hollo (Translator)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Pantheon Books (Jan 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394584376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394584379
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,244,750 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars All in our book group gave this book a "thumbs-up.", 26 Nov 1997
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This review is from: The Czar's Madman (Paperback)
After a trip to the encylopedia for a quick refresher on CzarsAlexander I and Nicholas I, a look at the atlas to realize that Estonia is very close to St. Petersburg and a dictionary search for "Livonia," The Czar's Madman became a fascinating novel of post-Napoleonic Russia. Clearly Timotheus ("Timo") von Bock, an Estonian aristocrat, has been effected by the French philosophes and the Age of Reason. His ideas are "mad" by Russian uppercrust standards.

The narrator of the book is Timo's brother-in-law, Jakob, whose journal writing over 32 years gives the reader a glimpse of many richly detailed and vivid characters and locations. This literary devise lends an air of unfolding mystery. While writing about life going on around him, Jakob emerges as a character, with all his human flaws, that we care about.

Kudos to the author and the translator.

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