Tom Reiss

Essad Bey

Twelve Secrets in the Caucasus

Blood and Oil in the Orient

Die Verschwörung gegen die Welt G.P.U.

In his lively and witty quasi-autobiography, Essad Bey tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917, which brought him through half the Orient, through the Caucasus, then to Istanbul - where this book concludes - and finally to Berlin.

Essad Bey erzählt mit viel Geist und Witz von seiner Kindheit in Baku, der Hauptstadt Aserbaidschans, sowie von seiner Flucht vor der Russischen Revolution 1917, die ihn zuerst quer durch den halben Orient, dann durch den Kaukasus und schließlich nach Istanbul führt - wo dieses Buch endet - bevor er in Berlin eintrifft.

Öl und Blut im Orient

Feuilletonistisch und filmisch geschrieben, ist "Nikolaus II. - Glanz und Untergang des letzten Zaren" eine spannend zu lesende historische Biographie, die den Werdegang des russischen Kaisers als „tragisches Schicksal“ und Mythos zugleich auffasst. Das beigefügte Nachwort liefert Hintergrundinformationen zum Zaren-Buch und setzt es in Kontext zu Leben und Werk seines Autors.

Glanz und Untergang des letzten Zaren

Nikolaus II.

Essad Bey, the sickly son of an oil millionaire from Baku, Azerbaijan, receives permission from his father to spend the summer with his "milk brother” Ali Khan, passing the holiday in his home village in the wild Caucasus. So the two set out, under the custody of a wise attendant, into an archaic world in which chivalry counted more than buying power and poets were more highly regarded than princes – into a country in which, as a kind of curiosity shop of world history, all that is outlived and forgotten was loyally preserved. This is Essad Bey’s second book, which was first published in 1930. In it the author draws upon his Oriental imaginative powers, conjuring a vast panorama of the Caucasus, its people and customs. The result is a fresh and densely atmospheric work, even if not always laying claim to scientific accuracy. Often adding a touch of imagination, the author succeeds in bringing the heart and soul of this archaic world to life, which he had himself experienced and learned to love as a child.

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