Interesting Times (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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The Russian Revolutionary army stormed the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, but less well known is that the Summer Palace of the Chinese royal family was indeed pillaged and destroyed by the British and the French during the Taiping Rebellion of 1860. Terry acknowledges:

“I had ‘storming the winter palace’ in mind because, yes, the events of the Russian revolution are more familiar to us — and then I came across the storming of the summer palace while reading up on Chinese torture. It took me some effort not to find some joke about the Taiping Rebellion, I have to say… and as for the Boxer Rising…”