Books with author Meriel Buchanan

Meriel Buchanan (1886 - 1959) was British memorialist. The daughter of the last British Ambassador to Imperial Russia, she wrote a number of articles and books about her experiences during that time, most notably: Recollections of imperial Russia (1919) and Ambassador's daughter (1958).Although several books have been written about Russia and the Revolution in its time period, few of them are illuminating. One of them that does really send some gleams of light through the mist is Miss Meriel Buchanan's Petrograd, the City of Trouble, 1914-1918. The writer is the daughter of the late British Ambassador in Russia. She was in the capital all through the war and the Revolution till the beginning of its last year, having opportunities for seeing all sorts of people, from the Emperor and his Consort to street-loafers and policemen, and keeping a calm, clear, untroubled, and yet sympathetic English eye upon everything. She gives us the atmosphere of that huge, bewildered, fate-stricken capital, that fair Northern giantess spellbound and helpless in the coils of an unholy wizardry, better than any other writer of these times. Even if her judgment of men and events may be erroneous the book would be worth reading for the singular charm of its descriptive passages. Miss Buchanan's word-painting is exquisite, and her pictures of the Kremlin, and the Crimea, and of Petrograd in the rose and gold of its summer pageantry, or lying white and still under the thin blue wintry sky, linger on the memory. She writes well of Russia and the Russians, for she loves them, and moves us to pity and sorrow for the great, simple, helpless people, preyed upon by surely the shabbiest and most ignoble gang of miscreants whom the frothy waves of revolution ever drifted out of the underworld.This book of Miss Buchanan's is the first attempt of any writer in any language to give to the world a sense of the atmosphere of Russia under the shock and terror of those world-shaking events. Miss Buchanan has placed us all under a very real and serious debt. She has also done Russia a noble service. ContentsI. THE EVENING REVIEW AT KRASSNOEII. JULY 24III. DECLARATION OF WARIV. MOSCOWV. FIRST DAYS AT THE HOSPITALVI. 1915VII. THE SECOND WINTERVIII. THE CRIMEAIX. SUMMER, 1916X. THE COURTXI. THE MURDER. OF RASPUTINXII. THE GATHERING OF THE STORMXIII. MONDAY, MARCH 12XIV. THE EMPEROR'S ABDICATIONXV. THE FIRST WEEKS OF THE REVOLUTIONXVI. SPRING, 1917XVII. THE WOMEN OF RUSSIAXVIII. BOLSHEVIK RISING OF JULYXIX. JULY 17 AND 18XX. THE TAKING OF THE FORTRESSXXI. THE FAILURE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMYXXII. THE COUP D'ETAT OF KORNILOFFXXIII. A SOLDIERXXIV. AUTUMN, 1917XXV. THE BOLSHEVIKS STRIKEXXVI. THE BOLSHEVIKS IN POWERXXVII. THE MOCKERY OF GOVERNMENTXXVIII. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACEXXIX. RULE OF THE RED GUARDXXX. ANARCHYXXXI. EAST DAYS IN PETROGRADXXXII. THE SOUL OF RUSSIAXXXIII. THE JOURNEY FROM RUSSIA

The crowd erupts as Isaac introduces the first number, and again when he starts to sing. Intense harmonies fill the tent and saturate the crowd. Strobe lights by the stage echo the music. Jess stands in the audience and watches him. Isaac Coleman, with the smoke grey eyes she knows so well, and a reputation for walking away if anyone gets too close. “Go, have fun,’ her mother had said. Her brother had agreed. “Isaac will be busy.” So she’d come. What could go wrong? Then she sees the slight start, hears the slip, the falter, the pause. Isaac has seen her. She watches him watching her as he finishes the set. The music fades, the lights dim, and Elwood goes to the break. Isaac settles in the wings. He leans against a crate, relaxing until he has to go on again. Miles offers him a joint. He takes it, has a puff and hands it to Toby, perching on a packing case too, boots crossed.Toby holds the joint like a piece of fine china. “What happened out there, Zac?” He gives a slight nod at the stage. “You forget the lyrics?” Smoke trickles out between his lips. Isaac folds his arms and crosses his boots. “A pause for effect.” He doesn’t expect to be believed, he’s been with Elwood for three years and never stopped in the middle of a number before. “Unlikely, something happened.” Miles moves enough to see out into the audience. He points to the side of the crowd about two thirds down the marquee. “Over there. Tall, blonde, long hair, high heels, short lace dress.” Toby leans forward and watches for a moment. He settles back onto his crate. “Not bad.” He looks across at Isaac. “So, why are you still up here?” He takes another puff. Isaac grins. Good question, Jess had caught the flash of awareness. He figured, now she knew she’d been seen, she’d leave. Couldn’t believe she’d come in the first place. Isaac, a successful musician, based in London has come back to the Coromandel to play the summer season at the beaches. Five years ago, he walked out on Jess to go to Australia and hasn’t been back since. Part of the reason he is back is to quiet some echoes from his past and also to make peace with Jess. At first, she rejects his overtures, but eventually, drawn in by the memories of the shared past he weaves around her she agrees to be friends and to spend a month with him. They have both changed a lot. Jess is more assertive and critical of some of the things Isaac does. And Isaac is wary of relationships and avoids any commitment. He makes it really clear their time together is temporary and after summer is he is going back to his life in London. Isaac’s bandmates, Miles and Toby, point out that if Jess is going to spend the summer with them, she is going to hear the lyrics of the new songs he’s written. The songs are about their lifestyle, an endless catalogue of drinking, partying, sex and drugs. Isaac plays the songs to her, she accepts that is the way he has been living and eventually, they achieve something like peace and start to enjoy their time together. But Isaac’s resentment of Jess’s relationship with her boss and Jess’s anger at the way he left, create a minefield. Butterfly Kisses is a standalone book in the Trainwreck series. If you like second chances, alpha males and strong females, then you’ll love this contemporary romance.

Excerpt from Petrograd: The City Trouble, 1914-1918It has been one of the characteristics of the Russian Revolution - perhaps of every revolution - that the spectators of its evolution have named every fresh development a climax. Looking back now through the events in Russia during 1917, one sees the abdication of the Tsar, the revolt of Korniloff, the Bolshevik coup d'etat as successive climaxes; but none of them as, in any sense, an ultimate climax. Although one is now a year and a half from that first wonderful day in March when the Cossacks lined the Nevsky and reassured the people who pressed against their horses that they would not shoot on their "brothers," the perspective is still not clear, and the day is still too soon for the authority of history.There is, however, one thing that may be done, and I believe that I am speaking without any exaggeration when I say that this book of Miss Buchanan's is the first attempt of any writer in any language to give to the world a sense of the atmosphere of Russia under the shock and terror of those world-shaking events.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

It has been one of the characteristics of the Russian Revolution perhaps of every Revolution that the spectators of its evolution have named every fresh development a climax. Looking back now through the events in Russia during 1917, one sees the abdication of the Czar, the revolt of Korniloff, theB olshevik coup dS tat as successive climaxes, but none of them as, in any sense, an ultimate climax; although one is now a year and a half from that first wonderful day in March when the Cossacks lined theN evski and reassured the people who pressed against their horses that they would not shoot on their brothers, the perspective is still not clear and the day is still too soon for the authority of history. There is, however, one thing that may be done, and I believe that I am speaking without any exaggeration when I say that this book of Miss Buchanan sis the first attempt of any writer in any language to give to the world a sense of the atmosphere of Russia under the shock and terror of those world-shaking events.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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