![]() ![]() Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. ![]() Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. This event is free with first come, first served seating. Click here for current mask requirements. She is the author of Come to This Court and Cry (Public Affairs, 2022) and recently won a 2023 Whiting Award for nonfiction. Kinstler is the deputy editor of The Dial and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents and 1843 Magazine. Miller will be in conversation with Linda Kinstler. A native of Portland, Oregon, he divides his time between Brooklyn and Kyiv. His coverage of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. His writing and reporting has been published in The Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Independent, among other outlets, as well as featured on CNN. ![]() He was previously the lead correspondent in Ukraine for BuzzFeed News, a world and national security reporter for POLITICO, and a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Kyiv. It is Ukraine in all its glory: vast, weird, exhilarating, defiant, resilient, trying to escape the long shadow of its former imperial ruler while fighting to build a new future.Ĭhristopher Miller is a journalist who currently writes about Ukraine for the Financial Times. This is the story of modern Ukraine and its transformation, as told through the lives of Ukrainians, their fears and struggles. This book takes the reader from the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv from the Black Sea shores of Crimea where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine's peninsula to the bloody battlefields where warlords ruled with iron fists to the destruction and terror wrought by Russian bombs in Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and beyond. When President Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, he unleashed a terror which struck at the very heart of Europe and broke the world order that had been in place since the fall of the Soviet Union.įinancial Times reporter Christopher Miller has been embedded in Ukraine for 13 years and is one of the few journalists who knows Ukraine inside out, who was at the frontline in Crimea and who reported from bombed out Mariupol. ![]()
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