Former People : : the Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
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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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xvii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374157616
0374157618
SUBJECTS
Sheremetev family -- History -- 20th century.
Golitsyn family -- History -- 20th century.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.