Comrade princess Memoirs of an aristocrat in modern Russia Tapa dura - 1990

Doubleday, London, 1990. Hard Cover.8vo, First Edition. Book Condition: Good. Ex library with slight slant. Clean interior. Dust Jacket: Good. In protective cover. Not Clipped..

London: Doubleday, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy apart from a neat inscription and date to front endpaper with a VG+ price clipped dustjacket. 228 pages. 18 illustrations. Princess Ekaterina Meshcherskaya was born in 1904, and lived the latter part of her life in Moscow in a tiny caretaker's apartment surrounded by relics and souvenirs of her family's past, the last of the Russian princesses living in Russia. Glasnost has enabled this remarkable woman to publish her story for the first time. She was only 13 years old when the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, and unlike the vast majority of aristocrats who fled the country after the Revolution, she and her mother forged new lives in a society now resentful and hostile towards the privileged classes. Their world of servants, pedigree dogs, a Greek tutor, French and German governesses, vast estates, was lost at a stroke, leaving them alone and penniless. Yet Ekaterina and her mother, a musically talented and iron willed young woman, overcame… Leer más

London : Doubleday, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 250 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Princesses Soviet Union ; Biography. Princes and princesses Russia ; Biography. Russia Social life and customs 20th century. Soviet Union Princes and princesses Biography. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 ; Personal narratives.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.