In Russian. Short description: Samarov Georg. Siege of Metz and death of Napoleon III. Moscow, 1877. The German writer Gregor Samarov (real name Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding) was born on April 11, 1828 (according to other sources, 1829) in the Prussian Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). He studied law and economics in the educational institutions of his native city, and then in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1851, Oscar Meding entered the service of the royal government. From the beginning of the seventies, Meding settled in Berlin and took up literature, taking the pseudonym Gregor Samarov. European fame brought him a five-volume epic For sceptres and crowns. Almost immediately, the books of G. Samarov were translated into Russian; for example, the first two novels of the Pentateuch were published in Moscow in 1873. Already in 1874, the writer published several novels, which he called modern, that is, reflecting the events of recent history: The Mortal Greetings of the Legions and the three-volume Roman Campaign of the Epigones. The “modern” series was continued by such novels as “The Siege of Metz and the Death of Napoleon III”, “Around the Crescent Moon”, “Plevna” (the release dates of the translations into Russian are 1877, 1882 and 1884 respectively). Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000959