Smith Douglas - Former People The Final Days Of The Russian Aristocracy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star and Salon Epic in scope precise in detail and heartbreaking in its human drama Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is the story of how a centuries - old elite famous for its glittering wealth its service to the tsar and empire and its promotion of the arts and culture was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror daily life went on. Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia's most powerful aristocratic families and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.
Title: Former People The Final Days Of The Russian Aristocracy
Author(s): Smith Douglas
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250037794
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/24/2013
Category: Social Classes