Artikel-Nr.: 20200846
Hardcover, 414 pages
SPb.: Aleteiia, 2020
ISBN: 978-5-00165-058-4
Format: 60x88/16
Novaia kniga Svetlany Arro — o dinasticheskikh sviaziakh Rossii i Germanii v XIX veke, kogda dve strany porodnilis' blagodaria mnogochislennym brakam velikikh kniazei, kniazhёn, printsev, printsess, tsarei i korolei. Eti otnosheniia osnovany na vzaimnykh poiskakh zhenikhov i nevest, kotorye ne vsegda zavershalis' brakami, no sozdavali druzheliubie gosudarstv. Nemetskie printsessy stanovilis' russkimi tsaritsami, a russkie kniazhny nemetskimi korolevami. Russko-evropeiskii rynok nevest i zhenikhov rabotal bespereboino. Nemetskie nevesty i zhenikhi mechtali o bogatoi, velikolepnoi i zagadochnoi Rossii. Tol'ko sud'by i braki redko reshalis' na nebesakh, oni imeli politicheskuiu podoplёku i chasto zakanchivalis' tragediiami. Odnako nariadu s dramatichnymi sud'bami sredi nevest, printsess ili velikikh kniazhёn poiavlialis' smelye i deiatel'nye zhenshchiny s kharakterami, dobivaiushchiesia samostoiatel'nosti i nezavisimosti, zasluzhivshie uvazheniia sovremennikov. Interesno, chto takimi byli doch' i vnuchki Pushkina, o kotorykh tozhe rasskazyvaet eta kniga. 
Avtor ispol'zoval mnozhestvo neizvestnykh russkikh i nemetskikh arkhivnykh materialov, kasaiushchikhsia, v osnovnom, Zemli Gessen, Visbadena i Darmshtadta, kotorye stremilis' stat' riadom s russkoi stolitsei Peterburgom.