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Bread of exile : a Russian family / Dimitri Obolensky ; translated from the Russian by Harry Willetts ; with an introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
LIBRA CT1217.O25 B74 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obolensky, Dimitri, 1918-2001--Family.
- Obolensky, Dimitri.
- Obolensky family.
- Obolensky, Dimitri, 1918-2001.
- Nobility--Russia--Biography.
- Nobility.
- History.
- Refugees.
- Exiles.
- Families.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union.
- Exiles--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Russians--Foreign countries--Biography.
- Russians.
- Russians--Foreign countries.
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Refugees--Biography.
- Russia--History--Alexander III, 1881-1894.
- Russia--History--Nicholas II, 1884-1917.
- Historians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Historians.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill, 1999.
- Summary:
- In Bread of Exile, two opposing worlds are juxtaposed: a world of privilege and power that saw the end of imperial Russia and struggled to survive Communist persecution and military attack, and one of dispossession and exile.
- Dimitri Obolensky's family belonged to the upper echelons of the Russian aristocracy. This collection of unpublished memoirs, diaries, and notebooks by six different family members spans more than one hundred years. Russia's turbulent history is made vividly real through intimate recollections of those who suffered the dramatic consequences of the Russian Revolution and lived the rest of their lives as emigres.
- Contents:
- Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky (1882-1964)
- Countess Maria Shuvalov (1894-1973)
- Countess Sandra Shuvalov (1869-1959)
- Sofka Demidov (1870-1953)
- Count André Tolstoy (1891-1963)
- Dimitri Obolensky.
- Notes:
- Includes D. Obolensky's own memoir in addition to the memoirs of five family members which are edited by him.
- ISBN:
- 1860465110
- OCLC:
- 42745703
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