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Gustav Nieritz

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(1795 - 1876)

Gustav Nieritz

Karl Gustav Nieritz was a German children’s author. He highlighted virtues such as diligence, fear of God, and sense of family.



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The Perils of Greatness (1865)

A biography of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, who rose from selling pirozhki on the streets of Moscow to Marshall, then Generalission of the Russian Imperial Army.

Famously corrupt, he temporarily managed to save himself by joining in the elevation of Catherine as empress but on her death was stripped of his wealth and position and exiled to Siberia where he died.

His Menshikov Palace in St. Petersburg now houses the Hermitage museum.

Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Gustav Nieritz
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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