| Description |
x, 285 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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"Readers of Marie Vassiltchikov's 'Berlin Diaries' will especially find her sister's autobiography an interesting read. 'Purgatory of Fools' also provides a valuable eyewitness account of life under Hitler from the perspective of an emigree Russian Princess. It doesn't have the absorbing immediacy of her sister's diary, yet it makes up for this with an historical perspective which comes from writing thirty years after the fact.... The first seventy or so pages describe her childhood at great length, which includes her family's narrow escape from a dire fate during the Russian revolution, and growing up in various locales in Germany and France (mostly in France; most of their schooling took place at a lycee outside Paris) and finally a few years spent in Lithuania just before the war."--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Metternich, Tatiana, Furstin von Metternich-Winneburg.
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Nobility -- Europe -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
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| ISBN |
0812906918 : $15.00 |
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9780812906912 |
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