The Vanished Pomps Of Yesterday: Being Some Random Reminiscences Of A British Diplomat, by Lord Frederic Hamilton
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The Vanished Pomps Of Yesterday: Being Some Random Reminiscences Of A British Diplomat, by Lord Frederic Hamilton- Published on: 2015-11-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .88" w x 6.14" l, 1.53 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 372 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Wonderfully Evocative View of a British Diplomats Reminiscences of a Bygone Era. By John Silence is Golden I picked up the 1934 edition of this book the mid 1960s at a Salvation Army store for a quarter. It has been part of my personnal library ever since. Lord Frederick Hamilton was a long service diplomat and foriegn service attache who was posted at one time or another it seemed everywhere. Berlin, Vienna, St Petersberg, {Petrograd}, Moscow, Lisbon, Tokyo, Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro, Asuncion are amoung the places that he wonderfully describes his, meetings with the rich, powerfull, monarchs, officals high and low, servants, peasants - men and women of vanished times and places a plethora of adventures and memories.Lord Hamilton is particularily excellent in his reminisces on his visits to and memories of Imperial Russia prior to 1914. His detailed and sometimes humorous impressions on the dreaded "Secret Police", the "Frenchified" Russian aristocracy, a Russian peasant village, an exciting wolf and bear hunt, the national problem of "Drunkeness", an Russian Orthodox Easter Mass Service, privately touring the Winter palace and viewing the accumulated treasures of the Russian Crown in it and the Kremlin {before the Communists and Nazis destroyed and dispersed them} are related by the author in detail and with real feeling for the country and the friendships that he made and maintained.But it is not all pomp, the incident of him bathing and brushing his teeth with 1/2 the population of a Russian peasant village watching him and commenting {in his hearing} their opinions about his actions is priceless. Or in Jamacia on how he came to taking a formal afternoon tea with 5 ladies while he was clad only in a red plush table cloth !! Or how the British minister in Buenos Ayres gets involved in a "squirt gun" type water fight with {it seems} 1/2 the population of the city and his clothes in rags !!His visit to Japan in the early 1920s - his descriptions of the countryside, Tokyo, the Japanese nobility, peasant farmers, the Japanese diet, homes, palaces, gardens, and the characther {in his view} of the Japanese people - where Japan had come from and where he thought the Japanese people were going {Pre - 1923} is unique and perceptive if not totally politically correct for 2013-14. Overall this is one of the best area's of the book.His telling of how Young Prince Wilhelm {The future Kaiser Wilhelm 11} thru his own stubborn arrogance nearly lost his life in an drowning accident at Potsdam in 1880 is another gem that I have never seen related any where else - and he adds a really venomous personnal comment about the incident!!If you are interested in late 19th and early 20th century social and political history related in a simple, elegant writting style highlighting an era, his friendships and good memories but tinged with sadness of the countries, places and lives that World War 1 had destroyed, civilizations now "Gone with the Wind" - then this is a 5 star book to savor. However, even the general reader that is not familiar with this era would enjoy and appreciate Lord Hamiltons memories - Highly Recommended.
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