| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-435) and index. |
| Contents |
Before the deluge. Russia, 1900 ; The Sheremetevs ; The Golitsyns ; The last dance -- 1917. The fall of the Romanovs ; A country of mutinous slaves ; The bolshevik coup -- Civil war. Expropriating the expropriators ; The corner house ; Spa town hall ; Bogoroditsk ; Doctor Golitsyn ; Exodus -- NEP. School of life ; Noble remains ; The foxtrot affair ; Virtue in rags -- Stalin's Russia. The great break ; The death of Parnassus ; Outcasts ; The mouse, the kerosene, and the match ; Anna's fortune ; Happy times ; Poisonous snakes and the avenging sword: operation "former people" ; The great terror ; War: the end. |
| Summary |
Examines the fate of two Russian aristocratic families in a detailed account of the Bolshevik Revolution's effect on the upper class, discussing the relentless lootings, harrowing escapes, humbling exile and imprisonment, and summary executions that tookplace during this violent time of transition. |
| Subject |
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.
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Sheremetev family -- History -- 20th century.
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Golit︠s︡yn family.
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| ISBN |
9780374157616 alkaline paper $30.00 |
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0374157618 alkaline paper |
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