Former People - Douglas Smith undifferentiated
The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy
KORTE INHOUD
Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, a history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. A story of how a centuries-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.