Лафайет: Политическая биография героя трех революций

V predlagaemoĭ chitateli͡am knige rasskazyvaetsi͡a o Zhilʹbere de Lafaĭete - uchastnike trekh revoli͡ut͡siĭ: Amerikanskoĭ 1774-1783 gg., Velikoĭ frant͡suzskoĭ 1789-1799 gg. i Ii͡ulʹskoĭ revoli͡ut͡sii vo Frant͡sii 1830 g., v kazhdoĭ iz kotorykh on igral vidnui͡u rolʹ. V ego sudʹbe pereplelisʹ romanticheskie prikli͡uchenii͡a i surovye ti͡agoty, prizhiznennai͡a slava i zabvenie. Politicheskai͡a biografii͡a Lafaĭeta dana na shirokom fone burnykh istoricheskikh sobytiĭ. Vyrazitelʹno predstavlena portretnai͡a galerei͡a sovremennikov Lafaĭeta: Dzh. Vashingtona i B. Franklina, Li͡udovika XVI i Marii-Antuanetty, Mirabo, Dantona, Aleksandra I i drugikh. Kniga rekomenduetsi͡a istorikam, politologam, obshchestvovedam, a takzhe shirokomu krugu chitateleĭ, interesui͡ushchikhsi͡a sobytii͡ami Novoĭ istorii i lichnostʹi͡u odnogo iz i͡arkikh predstaviteleĭ togo vremeni, kotorogo sovremenniki nazyvali geroem Novogo i Starogo Sveta.

This book tells readers about Gilbert de Lafayette, a participant in three revolutions: the American Revolution of 1774-1783, the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and the July Revolution in France of 1830, in each of which he played a prominent role. Romantic adventures and harsh hardships, lifetime fame and oblivion intertwined in his fate. Lafayette's political biography is given against a broad background of turbulent historical events. The portrait gallery of Lafayette's contemporaries is expressively represented: J. Washington and B. Franklin, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau, Danton, Alexander I and others. The book is recommended to historians, political scientists, social scientists, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the events of Modern History and the personality of one of the brightest representatives of that time, whom contemporaries called the hero of the New and Old World.