Austro-Hungary. The Fate of the Empire

The first European edition of the historical bestseller by the winners of the "Educator" award.

This book is a fascinating tale of an incredibly diverse and surprisingly interesting country, a kind of European Atlantis, known to the Russian-speaking reader far less than it deserves. The Habsburg states are no longer on the maps. The First World War destroyed this, perhaps, the coziest empire in history, but the experience of coexistence accumulated by its peoples is still relevant to Central Europe. Based on a deep knowledge of the facts, the analysis of historical processes is accompanied by an exciting account of the everyday life and celebrations of the Danube monarchy, vivid portraits of the members of the Habsburg dynasty and their subjects, and lively essays about trips to Habsburg Vienna and Budapest, Prague and Lviv, Sarajevo and Trieste.