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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. -- Saul David * 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. -- Gerard DeGroot * 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. -- Allan Massie
* 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. -- Guy Pewsey * Evening Standard *
A vivid account of the city 'taut as a wire'... highly
readable and fluent... Rappaport has unearthed striking new
material -- Spectator * Charlotte Hobson *
Fascinating... A colourful account of expatriate life in the
Russian capital in 1917. -- Peter Conradi * Sunday Times *
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