Gercoginya Mariya. Zhizn' mezhdu Rossiey i Germaniey

Izdanie 2004 g. Gercoginya Mariya - Saksen-Koburskaya i Gotskaya,urozhdennaya gercoginya Vyurtembergskaya 1799-1860gg. Molodost' gercogini Marii proshla v Rige, zatem v Vitebske i, nakonec, v Peterburge pod znakom vysokogo polozheniya i tesnogo rodstva ee roditeley s carskoy sem'ey. Gercoginya Mariya byla plemyannicey Marii Fedorovny, suprugi imperatora Pavla I, a takzhe kuzinoy rossiyskih imperatorov Aleksandra I i Nikolaya I i velikoy knyagini Marii Pavlovny. Vsyu zhizn' ona chuvstvovala sebya druzheski svyazannoy s suprugoy russkogo imperatora Nikolaya I Aleksandroy Fedorovnoy, princessoy Prusskoy, osobenno v tyazhelye dlya otnosheniy mezhdu Rossiey i Angliey vremena Krymskoy voyny. Predstavlennye v knige arhivnye materialy formiruyut u chitatelya predstavlenie o gercogine Marii kak o vysokoobrazovannoy zhenschine svoego vremeni, s razvitym esteticheskim vkusom, obshirnymi interesami k literature, teatru, muzyke i iskusstvu, a takzhe vysokoy social'no-obschestvennoy otvetstvennosti.