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The dramatic, world-shaking story of the Russian Revolution told from an entirely new perspective - through the eye-witness accounts of foreign nationals in Petrograd who witnessed history being made on the streets around them.
Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with specialisms in
the Victorians and revolutionary Russia.
Her books include No Place for Ladies- The Untold Story of Women in
the Crimean War, Ekaterinburg- The Last Days of the Romanovs,
Beautiful For Ever- Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician,
Con-Artist and Blackmailer, Magnificent Obsession- Victoria, Albert
and the Death that Changed the Monarchy; Four Sisters- The Lost
Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses and Caught in the Revolution-
Petrograd, 1917. A fluent Russian speaker, she has translated many
classic Russian plays (including all of Chekhov's) and was
historical consultant to Tom Stoppard's National Theatre trilogy
The Coast of Utopia (2002). She is also a frequent contributor to
television and radio documentaries, most recently Russia's Lost
Princesses (BBC2, 2014). She lives in West Dorset.
A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian
Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast
of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen
Rappaport.
*Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs*
Next year's centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian
Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly
original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed
account.
*Daily Telegraph*
This is narrative history at its very best, communicating the
confusion, exhilaration, horror and despair of that momentous
year
*BBC History Magazine*
Chronicles the events of 1917 through the eyes of foreigners
resident in Petrograd — diplomats, journalists, merchants, factory
owners, charity workers and simple Russophiles... a wonderful array
of observations, most of them misguided, some downright bizarre.
What makes this book so delightful and enlightening is the depth of
incredulity it reveals... [A] wonderful book.
*The Times*
Thoroughly-researched and absorbing... this book offers a
compelling picture of life in Petrograd in this momentous and often
terrible year... One gets a wonderful picture of the extraordinary
and beautiful city... and a keen sense of the really grotesque
inequality that has always existed there.
*Scotsman*
A past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and
more romantic than Pasternak... Helen Rappaport collates a vast
menagerie of eyewitnesses [from Petrograd 1917] into a cast of
fascinating characters... bring[ing] an absorbing period of history
closer to home.
*Evening Standard*
A vivid account of the city ‘taut as a wire’… highly readable and
fluent… Rappaport has unearthed striking new material
*Charlotte Hobson*
Fascinating… A colourful account of expatriate life in the Russian
capital in 1917.
*Sunday Times*
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