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the late Tony Bishop, who never got to see what I made of his delightful notes. In a different vein, and somewhat later in the process, Octavia Lamb provided expert assistance in tracking down many of the illustrations and Charlotte Ridings helped prepare the final text.
Just as it is usual to thank everyone who was involved (and the thanks are very real), so it is customary to absolve them all of any responsibility for the book itself. In the case of my greatest debts, however, such absolution can only ever be technical, for a few people have worked so hard on my behalf that the book would simply not exist without them. Two talented editors, Sara Bershtel at Metropolitan and Simon Winder at Penguin, put their prodigious energies to work, bombarding me with questions while somehow adding fresh coherence and fluency to the text. They would never have seen a manuscript at all, however, had it not been for Peter Robinson, who generously allowed me to redefine his duties as literary agent to include unhealthy quantities of reading along with his unfailing support, intellectual as well as practical and moral. I thank them all, and hope the published book will reflect each of their very different kinds of creativity. Meanwhile, and always, I am most grateful of all to Frank Payne. It was never going to be easy to make this journey, but he not only stayed the entire distance but managed to fall in love with Moscow in the process. May there be many Moscows to come.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C ATHERINE M ERRIDALE is the author of the critically acclaimed Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945 and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia. A professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary university of London, she has also written for The Guardian, the Literary Review, and the London Review of Books and contributes regularly to broadcasts on BBC radio. She lives in Oxfordshire, England.
RED FORTRESS. Copyright 2013 by Catherine Merridale. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.henryholt.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Merridale, Catherine, 1959–
Red fortress: history and illusion in the Kremlin / Catherine Merridale.—First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-8680-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9837-2 (electronic book) 1. Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)—History. 2. Moscow (Russia)—Buildings, structures, etc. 3. Moscow (Russia)—History. I. Title.
DK602.3M47 2013
947'.31—dc23
2013026769
e-ISBN 978-0-8050-9837-2
First U.S. Edition: October 2013
First eBook edition: October 2013
Just as it is usual to thank everyone who was involved (and the thanks are very real), so it is customary to absolve them all of any responsibility for the book itself. In the case of my greatest debts, however, such absolution can only ever be technical, for a few people have worked so hard on my behalf that the book would simply not exist without them. Two talented editors, Sara Bershtel at Metropolitan and Simon Winder at Penguin, put their prodigious energies to work, bombarding me with questions while somehow adding fresh coherence and fluency to the text. They would never have seen a manuscript at all, however, had it not been for Peter Robinson, who generously allowed me to redefine his duties as literary agent to include unhealthy quantities of reading along with his unfailing support, intellectual as well as practical and moral. I thank them all, and hope the published book will reflect each of their very different kinds of creativity. Meanwhile, and always, I am most grateful of all to Frank Payne. It was never going to be easy to make this journey, but he not only stayed the entire distance but managed to fall in love with Moscow in the process. May there be many Moscows to come.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C ATHERINE M ERRIDALE is the author of the critically acclaimed Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945 and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia. A professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary university of London, she has also written for The Guardian, the Literary Review, and the London Review of Books and contributes regularly to broadcasts on BBC radio. She lives in Oxfordshire, England.
RED FORTRESS. Copyright 2013 by Catherine Merridale. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.henryholt.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Merridale, Catherine, 1959–
Red fortress: history and illusion in the Kremlin / Catherine Merridale.—First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8050-8680-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9837-2 (electronic book) 1. Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)—History. 2. Moscow (Russia)—Buildings, structures, etc. 3. Moscow (Russia)—History. I. Title.
DK602.3M47 2013
947'.31—dc23
2013026769
e-ISBN 978-0-8050-9837-2
First U.S. Edition: October 2013
First eBook edition: October 2013
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