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The bulk of the audiobook will deal with what Vlad’s political career looked like, what wars he waged, and how his life eventually ended. But we’ll go one step beyond and cover some areas that historians don’t typically focus on. In addition to raw facts, we’ll also focus on what Vlad III’s character was, what drove him forward, and what his chief traits might have been.

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

The 15th century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. Already during his own lifetime, his true story became obscured by a veil of myths. As a result, he has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant - who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the 19th century - and as a national and Christian hero who bravely fought to defend his native land and all of Europe against the invading Turkish infidels.

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler was voivode of Wallachia three times. The tales about the burning of the lazy, the poor, and the lame at Vlad's order and the execution of the woman who had made her husband too short a shirt can also be found among the German and Slavic anecdotes. Books describing Vlad's cruel acts were among the first best sellers in the German-speaking territories.

Few names cast more terror into the human heart than Dracula. The legendary vampire, created by author Bram Stoker for his 1897 novel of the same name, has inspired countless horror movies, television shows, and other bloodcurdling tales of vampires. Though Dracula may seem to many like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an even more grotesque taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or—as he is better known—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes), a name earned for his favorite way of dispensing with his enemies.

Many scholars argue that Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is the real Dracula. His story, however, is much more complicated than the oft-reported details of his atrocities would imply. This audiobook tells the story of his life and times and discusses his connection to the fictional Count Dracula in a succinct, compelling manner, which makes for an entertaining listen packed with historical information.

In addition to lending the name Dracula to Bram Stoker's famous vampire, Vlad is known around the world by the cognomen Vlad the Impaler, due to his reputation for impaling thousands of his enemies. Vlad was reputed to be such a tyrant that his reputation and stories of his deeds spread across Germany and the rest of Europe during his lifetime.

This is a combo of eight biographies contained in one book: Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Hannibal Barca, Napoleon Bonaparte, Suleiman the Magnificent, Vlad the Impaler, and William the Conqueror. Get this great deal now.

Vlad Tepes, l'impalatore, nel XV secolo fu il principe della Valacchia, regione situata nel cuore dell'Europa Orientale. Personaggio leggendario per la sua ferocia e crudeltà, ben presto venne chiamato "Dracula", e cioè drago o demonio. Ma chi è stato veramente l'uomo che la cultura popolare prima e la letteratura gotica poi hanno reso immortale con il nome di Conte Dracula? Un paladino della sua nazione e della fede cristiana, oppure un pazzo sadico e feroce, un bestiale e sanguinario torturatore?

Picking up where the best seller The Russian Five left off, Vlad the Impaler will have listeners alternately laughing and in tears with dozens more memorable, untold stories and anecdotes from the Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup championship season 25 years ago. The book includes a foreword by Hall of Fame defenseman Slava Fetisov, along with lengthy excerpts from interviews of several members of that team, from captain Steve Yzerman, teammates Brendan Shanahan, Nicklas Lidstrom, Sergei Fedorov, Igor Larionov, Slava Kozlov, and coach Scotty Bowman, among many others.

Izvestnyy avstriyskiy pisatel' Stefan Cveyg, master belletristicheskih romanov, posvyatil svoyu poslednyuyu rabotu v ehtom zhanre velikomu francuzskomu prozaiku, Onore de Bal'zaku, sozdatelyu grandioznogo cikla romanov "Chelovecheskaya komediya". Takoe vnimanie k Bal'zaku vpolne opravdanno. Pered nami razvorachivaetsya zhizn', napolnennaya burnymi sobytiyami.

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Not too many people realize that the story of Dracula was based on a really sadistic ruler in Romania. Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad the Third, was a merciless despot who tried to make an example out of his opponents by impaling them and displaying them in public. He also enjoyed bathing in dead people’s blood and did some other gross, inhumane things. He was the terror of Eastern Europe for many years.

No puede perderse la biografía del hombre que dio vida al célebre mito de Drácula. Nacido en el siglo XV, este Príncipe de Valaquia fue conocido por su carácter incendiario, valeroso, sanguinario, pero justo hasta la crueldad, que fue impulsor de un brutal método de tortura, el empalamiento, que asesinó entre 40,000 o 100,000 hombres de su época.

Dacha na Aptekarskom ostrove Sankt-Peterburga. Tam v 1906 godu provodit leto mnogochislennoe semeystvo. Glava sem'i yavlyaetsya i glavoy russkogo Pravitel'stva. Imenno on obespechivaet bezukoriznennuyu rabotu gosudarstvennogo mekhanizma strany, prohodyashchey period vazhnyh i trudnyh reform, kotorye dolzhny obespechit' obshchestvennoe spokoystvie i procvetanie. V to vremya kak odna chast' doma predaetsya obychnym letnim zanyatiyam i razvlecheniyam.

Eto v vysshey stepeni interesnaya kniga, opisyvayushchaya iznutri russkiy revolyucionnyy terror. V centre romana brat'ya Bolotovy, synov'ya zasluzhennogo generala. Starshiy, Andrey, oficer flota, v to vremya kak sredniy, Aleksandr, yavlyaetsya odnim iz rukovoditeley partii ehserov. Uvlechennyy ponachalu partiynym stroitel'stvom on vskore soznaet, chto revolyucionnyy process, v sushchnosti, stihien, i ego lyubimaya partiya nikak ne vliyaet na proiskhodyashchie sobytiya.

Vospominaniya Anny Grigor'evny Dostoevskoy otnosyatsya k luchshim obrazcam russkoy memuarnoy literatury, oni osnovany na dnevnikovyh zapisyah, kotorye vsyu zhizn' vela avtor. V osnovnoy svoey chasti vospominaniya osveshchayut samyy plodotvornyy period v zhizni Dostoevskogo, kogda im byli sozdany velikie romany - "Idiot", "Prestuplenie i nakazanie", "Podrostok", "Brat'ya Karamazovy". Unikal'na lichnost' avtora memuarov.

Elizaveta Petrovna Yan'kova (1768-1861) ne otnosilas' k chislu znamenityh lic, hot' v ee rodu byli znatneyshie familii (Rimskie-Korsakovy, Shcherbatovy, Meshcherskie, Tatishchevy, Tolstye, Volkonskie, Saltykovy, Miloslavskie). No za svoi 93 goda ona byla znakoma so mnogimi interesnymi i dazhe znamenitymi lyud'mi. Ee rasskazy ohvatyvayut zhizn' pyati pokoleniy, i yavlyayutsya bescennym vkladom v istoriyu Moskvy.

V svoih memuarah znamenityy shef VI otdeleniya RSKHA rasskazyvaet o tom, chto pobudilo stat' ego chlennom SS i SD, blagodarya chemu on sdelal stol' porazitel'nuyu kar'eru. On podrobno opisyvaet ryad operaciy, kotorye on ne tol'ko splaniroval, no v kakih on i sam prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie. Im detal'no issleduetsya svetskiy shpionazh, okazavshiysya ves'ma plodotvornym. On raskryvaet taynu osoboy operacii nemeckoy razvedki, sprovocirovavshuyu bol'shuyu chistku vysshego komandnogo sostava v SSSR (delo Tuhachevskogo i t. p.).

Avtobiograficheskiy roman angliyskogo pisatelya Somerseta Uil'yama Moehma "Podvodya itogi" (1938) predstavlyaet soboy ne stol'ko izlozhenie fakticheskoy kanvy ego zhizni, skol'ko popytku proanalizirovat' svoy put' - pisatelya i cheloveka. Predel'no iskrennie i glubokie razmyshleniya avtora o svoem literaturnom tvorchestve i vnutrennem razvitii ne mogut ne zainteresovat' sovremennogo chitatelya.