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After the Romanovs : Russian exiles in Paris between the wars / Helen Rappaport.
By: Rappaport, Helen [author.]
.Publisher: London : Scribe Publications, 2022Description: xvi, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781914484292; 9781922585349; 9781922586261.Subject(s): Russians -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century | Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- RefugeesDDC classification: 944.3610049171
Contents:
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".
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 944.3610049171 RAP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020325 |
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".