192 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
The author grew up in St Petersburg. This is her personal recollection of the places she grew to love while living there. At sixteen she watched massed crowds acclaim the Tzar ; at nineteen she witnessed the flames of the October Revolution. Edith Almedingen knew she would never return to the city she loved so passionately and which inspired so much of the finest in Russian life and letters. In remembering St Petetrsburg, she has evoked in this work an experience of great beauty and significance for her readers to share
