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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
by Smith, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Back flyleaf was torn out and back hinge is slightly loose, dj is corner clipped; otherwise clean.)
- ISBN 10
- 0374157618
- ISBN 13
- 9780374157616
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Hardcover. VG- (Back flyleaf was torn out and back hinge is slightly loose, dj is corner clipped; otherwise clean.). Brown paper boards, gilt letters on spine, red & cream & illus. dust jacket, 464 pp., BW illus. "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. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, 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 art 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." (dj).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150679
- Title
- Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
- Author
- Smith, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Back flyleaf was torn out and back hinge is slightly loose, dj is corner clipped; otherwise clean.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374157618
- ISBN 13
- 9780374157616
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Russian History ; Russian History ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russian History;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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