The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution Personal Stories
The Russian Countess: Escaping Revolutionary Russia
ISBN
9780955623950
Purchase Price
£1.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
March 12, 2022
Publisher
Impress Books (2009, Exeter)
Notes
The Author found herself separated from her three young sons, stripped of her possessions and fearing for her life, in Post-Revolutionary Russia. This book is the account of her escape from Russia through a remarkable series of adventures. It is a very interesting story, but it also serves to show us what Post-Revolution Russia was really like. It is particularly valuable because it is a story told by an "ordinary" person (if you can call a Countess ordinary, but then she was a fairly low level aristo and she was also a very determined woman), so her story is great for us because she describes in great detail her movements through Russia and all her extraordinary experiences before she eventually escaped to the West. The book is sometimes quite a difficult read, not least because of the very small print, and the printer appears to have been trying to save on cost because the pages are not that easy to read. But despite that, the books is a valuable contribution to our Collection.
9780955623950
Purchase Price
£1.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
March 12, 2022
Publisher
Impress Books (2009, Exeter)
Notes
The Author found herself separated from her three young sons, stripped of her possessions and fearing for her life, in Post-Revolutionary Russia. This book is the account of her escape from Russia through a remarkable series of adventures. It is a very interesting story, but it also serves to show us what Post-Revolution Russia was really like. It is particularly valuable because it is a story told by an "ordinary" person (if you can call a Countess ordinary, but then she was a fairly low level aristo and she was also a very determined woman), so her story is great for us because she describes in great detail her movements through Russia and all her extraordinary experiences before she eventually escaped to the West. The book is sometimes quite a difficult read, not least because of the very small print, and the printer appears to have been trying to save on cost because the pages are not that easy to read. But despite that, the books is a valuable contribution to our Collection.