THE RUSSIAN COURT AT SEA: THE VOYAGE OF HMS MARLBOROUGH, APRIL 1919

Book ID/图书代码： 11701210B43576

English Summary/英文概要： On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 17 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. They included the Tsar’s mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, and his sister, the Grand Duchess Xenia, Prince Felix Youssupov, the murderer of Rasputin and a man once mooted as a future leader of Russia, and Grand Duke Nicholas, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies.

As the ship prepared to set sail, a British sloop carrying 170 White Russian soldiers drew up alongside. The soldiers stood on deck and sang the RussianNational Anthem. It was the last time the anthem was sung to members of theImperial Family within Russian territory for over 70 years. The Dowager Empress stood on deck alone. Nobody dared to approach her.

THE RUSSIAN COURT AT SEA vividly recreates this unlikely voyage, with its bizarre assortment of warring characters and its priceless cargo of treasures, including rolled-up Rembrandts and Faberge eggs. It is a story, by turns exotic, comic and doomed, of an extraordinary group of people caught up in an extraordinary moment in history when their lives were in every way at sea.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1919年4月11日，罗曼诺夫遭暗杀之后不到半年，英舰马尔博罗号载着17名俄国帝王家族离开雅尔塔对他们执行永久流放。

就在马尔博罗号起航之际，一艘载有170名白俄军人的单桅帆船逼近，船员站在甲板，唱起了俄国国歌。这是最后对结束逾70统治的统治者的离歌。

本书重构了这次海之行，充满了异域风情以及海上非凡生活，看似喜剧，其实早已注定了的结局。(兼职翻译-XJJ)

Awards/获奖情况：邮报在线（Mail on Sunday）：“作者的侦探故事混合了罗曼诺夫公开和私底下的生活，情节曲折，编织睿智。所附珍贵小照片，展示了马尔博罗号的海上生活以及渲染了一种渴望的氛围。”

About the Author/作者介绍： 弗朗西斯•威尔士（Frances Welch），《星期日电讯报》（Sunday Telegraph）、《金融时报》（the Financial Times）等多家报刊自由撰稿人，目前和丈夫携两个孩子住在Aldeburgh。她与人合著有《记忆革命：俄国女人篇》（Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember）、《罗曼诺夫及吉布斯先生》（The Romanov & Mr Gibbes ）、《罗曼诺夫幻想曲：追求安娜的生活》（A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson ）。

Frances Welch has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Granta, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She is co-author of Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember (Routledge, 1993), The Romanov & Mr Gibbes (Short Books, 2003) and A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson (Short Books, 2007) She is married to the writer Craig Brown, and has two children. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Format:电子手稿

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：

原文第一章内容：暂无

手稿：暂无

大纲：暂无