Rappaport, Helen

After the Romanovs : Russian exiles in Paris between the wars / Helen Rappaport. - xvi, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white)

La Tournée des grand ducs -- "We really did stagger the world" -- "Paris taught me, beggared me, put me on my feet" -- "We had outlived our epoch and were doomed" -- "I never thought I would have to drag out my life as an émigré" -- "Paris is full of Russians" -- "How ruined Russians earn a living" -- "We are not in exile, we are on a mission" -- "Emperor Kirill of all the Russias" -- "Ubiquitous intriguers," spies, and assasins -- "A far violin among near Balalaikas" -- "I forever pity the exile, a prisoner, an invalid".

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Russians--History--France--Paris--20th century.


Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Soviet Union--History--Refugees.--Revolution, 1917-1921

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