Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life
A Russian aristocratic flees to France in 1917 and embraces the hedonistic culture of 1920s Paris, becoming England's most outspoken Communist.
A Russian aristocratic flees to France in 1917 and embraces the hedonistic culture of 1920s Paris, becoming England's most outspoken Communist.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781862079199 (1862079196)
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
Edition language: English
Princess Sophy Dolgorouky (called Sofka) was born in 1907 into an ancient family of nobility. She grew up in an atmosphere of incredible privilege and cossetting, raised by her stiff grandmother and, intermittently, her rebellious surgeon mother and diletante father. Her family fled to Europe duri...