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100 1 _aBorstendörfer, Adolf,
_d1893-1957
240 1 0 _aChristine von Schweden. Finnish
245 1 0 _aKristiina kuningatar
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-08
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Kristiina kuningatar : Vuosisatansa merkillisin nainen" by Adolf Borstendörfer is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. It dramatizes the life of Sweden’s Queen Christina, tracing her resolve to abdicate, her intellectual and spiritual restlessness, her conversion to Catholicism, and the intrigues and romances that follow her across European courts. The opening of the book moves from Uppsala’s court to grand public spectacle and then into continental intrigue. Chancellor Schering Rosenhane informs Dowager Queen Maria Eleonora that Christina intends to abdicate, while an alternative suitor (Count Tott) is floated to block her plan; Christina confides instead in Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie that she will renounce the crown and faith and depart. We witness her formal abdication before the estates at Uppsala, a secret, tender farewell with Magnus, and then her entry into Brussels, where Jesuits and Spanish grandees celebrate her reception and a charismatic Italian, Count Sentinelli—armed with a papal recommendation—wins her favor, provoking Magnus’s jealous alarm. Parallel scenes introduce a clandestine illuminati-like society that condemns Christina to death and, in Innsbruck, a petty official stirs anti-royal sentiment while conspirators prepare to strike, as Christina reads a troubled letter from her old tutor warning of mounting hostility. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kustannus Oy Minerva, 1929
653 _aChristina, Queen of Sweden, 1626-1689
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76246
999 _c116971
_d116971