Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember

by Horsbrugh-Porter; Anna

• ISBN13: 9780415088077
• ISBN10: 0415088070
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 11/15/1993
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the Revolution first-hand, this collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique and moving record of life in imperial and Bolshevik Russia. The accounts give a deeply personal insight into how the revolution devastated the aristocracy, the intelligensia and foreigners of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the few weeks after the October 1917 upheaval. The memories of the women in this book have remained very sharp, with a volume and precision of detail, and intensity of recall, found in those whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the traumas of revolution.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Map of the Russian Empire circa 1900
Introduction	p. 1
Anya Troup	p. 8
Tatiana Vladimirovna Toporkova	p. 13
Princess Sophia Wacznadze	p. 26
Dorothy Russell	p. 39
Irina Sergevna Tidmarsh	p. 47
Ludmila Mathias	p. 70
Marie Allan	p. 83
Olga Lawrence	p. 96
Eugenia Peacock	p. 105
Ada Nikolskaya	p. 120
Chronology	p. 128
Notes	p. 130
Index	p. 139
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