Description
What Remains of the Tsarist Empire
Book Summary
This work recovers the testimonies of Russian exiles in Paris following the 1917 Revolution, originally published by Manuel Chaves Nogales. For the first time in facsimile format, the reader gains access to a unique visual and literary chronicle, where the Andalusian journalist combined his lucid prose with the illustrations of his friend Francisco Rivero Gil. An essential document that rescues the memory of those who lost their world and reconstructs, through the eyes of the greatest Spanish journalist of the 20th century, the traces of a vanished empire.
What is it about?
Manuel Chaves Nogales, convinced that the image is an essential part of the narrative, collected in this book the voices of the aristocrats, intellectuals, and military personnel who fled Soviet Russia and took refuge in Paris. Through interviews and reportage, the author paints a heartbreaking and lucid fresco of the White diaspora, the uprooting, and the nostalgia for a world that no longer exists. This facsimile edition faithfully reproduces the original work, respecting the layout, photographs, and drawings by Rivero Gil, returning to the reader the complete experience of journalism that understood information as a fusion of text and image. It is, in essence, a first-hand historical testimony and a work of editorial art.
Main themes
- Russian exile and the White diaspora after the 1917 Revolution.
- Historical memory and first-hand journalistic chronicle.
- The relationship between text and image in early 20th-century journalism.
- Uprooting and loss of identity in displaced communities.
- The figure of Manuel Chaves Nogales as an exceptional chronicler of his time.
Who is it recommended for?
For readers interested in the contemporary history of Russia and Europe, in narrative and high-quality journalism, and in the work of Manuel Chaves Nogales. Also for collectors of facsimile editions and lovers of graphic and literary chronicles who seek to understand the human consequences of major political shifts.
What this book offers
- Access to a facsimile work that faithfully reproduces the original edition, with its valuable graphic material.
- A unique testimony on the Russian exile in Paris, narrated by one of the most lucid pens in Spanish journalism.
- The possibility of discovering a less publicized facet of Chaves Nogales: his commitment to illustration as part of the journalistic narrative.
- A collector's item that enriches any library on history, journalism, and exile culture.
Technical specifications
- Author: CHAVES NOGALES, MANUEL
- Publisher: CONFLUENCIAS
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION, HISTORY, HISTORY: SPECIFIC EVENTS AND TOPICS
- Collection: OUT OF COLLECTION
- Publication date: April 2025
- Number of pages: 100
- Weight: 960 g
Editorial review
This facsimile edition constitutes an act of editorial justice toward a work that anticipated modern visual journalism. The recovery of Chaves Nogales's texts, accompanied by the graphic work of Rivero Gil, offers the reader an immersive and first-rate documentary experience. Its value lies as much in the historical content—the voices of the Russian exiles—as in the materiality of the book object, which allows one to appreciate the original design. An essential publication for those who wish to delve into the work of the most relevant Spanish journalist of the 20th century and the history of exile.