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Orlando Figes possesses a great level of focus and boldness in his overall thinking. His work, The People's Tragedy, about the Russian Revolution covering the years 1890 to 1920 was his thoughts on the revolutionary history. This controversial topic was lengthily touched in the book. His most recent masterpiece, which was the Natasha's Dance, was a Russian Kingdom story that discusses about Peter the Great and Breshnev. In the portion of Tolstoy, Figes merged components on essential public and private events. Figes was known to be a natural writer. He strongly considered his mother, Eva Figes, as his major influence, particularly of his life. Orlando Figes was a veritable expert on a variety of Russian issues and topics such as Czars, Russian princes and priests, Revolutionary peasants, and many other similar characters. It was seemingly a natural thing for him to speak of the Russian Civil War as well as the Revolution. While others will not want to touch these topics, Figes dared to do so. He wrong not only about the Rich Russians, but most other controversial issues as well. This is why Orlando Figes was considered by colleagues, admirers, and peers as a genis in history and academics. Orlando Figes and his sister Kate were reared strictly by their novelist mother Eva. They were staying in their London home since they were born. All this time, Eva tried her best to pamper them by giving them numerous books on which to spend their time reading and enjoying. Born in 1959, Orlando obviously belong to a closely knit family who stayed most of their early lives in the Northwestern part of London. During his early toddler days, Figes showed great signs that he was a budding lover of books and magazines. During his college days, he decided that he wanted to take up and concentrate in history at the prestigious Cambridge University. Orlando Figes specialized in interesting topics of Eastern as well as Central Europe. He likewise attended a number of essential lectures from popular academic personalities like Stone and Burke. Under the key guidance and words of wisdom from Stone, Orlando Figes was able to write a valuable collegiate dissertation that tackled on German-Jewish type of relationship, particularly one that involved Marx and Heine. As he continued with his quest for higher academics, Orlando Figes decided to continue taking up a Doctorate degree. All this time, it was Stone who was mentoring him. Eventually, Stone advised him to let go of his love for the Jewish-German topic.
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