In Quisling's Shadow The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra

by Seaver, Kirsten A.; Yourieff, Alexandra; Yourieff, W. George

• ISBN13: 9780817948320
• ISBN10: 0817948325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

Alexandra Andreevna Voronine Yourieff, wife of Vidkun Quisling, reveals firsthand in this detailed memoir the tragedy, betrayals, misunderstandings, and happiness of her fascinating life. Not just a tale of saints and sinners, but of three people—Alexandra, Quisling, and his second wife, Maria—whose fates were intertwined under the extreme conditions created by revolution, war, and famine in Russia. She discloses every particular of her long and tumultuous life, from her happy early childhood on the Crimean peninsula thorough the horrors of the revolution, her marriage to Quisling and his ultimate betrayals of both her and his country, to her later life in France and California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Background Sketch	p. 1
Alexandra's Childhood and Family	p. 15
Revolution and Civil War	p. 29
Famine	p. 41
PomGol and Alexandra's First Encounter with Quisling	p. 57
An Intricate Workplace	p. 77
The Proposal	p. 89
Farewell to Kharkov	p. 109
Farewell to Russia	p. 127
Honeymoon	p. 147
Daily Life in Oslo	p. 163
Light and Shadow	p. 183
The Doll in the Drawer	p. 201
The Child	p. 211
New Adjustments	p. 229
Maria Enters the Picture	p. 237
The Treasures of the Crimea	p. 251
Together Again in Kharkov	p. 277
"I Want to Divorce You"	p. 289
Maria Appears	p. 311
Muddied Waters	p. 321
The Trust	p. 333
Deception's Reach	p. 347
Fom the Frying Pan into the Fire	p. 361
Nikitin	p. 381
Home to Oslo	p. 403
Out of the Cage	p. 417
Maria's First Few Years as Mrs. Quisling	p. 435
Alexandra's New Life	p. 447
Sources	p. 473
Index	p. 475
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