ISBN: 9780374157616

Edition: First edition.

Description: xvii, 464 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Before the deluge. Russia, 1900 ; The Sheremetevs ; The Golitsyns ; The last dance
• 1917. The fall of the Romanovs ; A country of mutinous slaves ; The bolshevik coup
• Civil war. Expropriating the expropriators ; The corner house ; Spa town hall ; Bogoroditsk ; Doctor Golitsyn ; Exodus
• NEP. School of life ; Noble remains ; The fox-trot affair ; Virtue in rags
• Stalin's Russia. The great break ; The death of Parnassus ; Outcasts ; The mouse, the kerosene, and the match ; Anna's fortune ; Happy times ; Poisonous snakes and the avenging sword: operation "former people" ; The great terror ; War: the end.

LCCN: 2012003819

Control Number: 876376

Subjects:

• Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia -- History -- 20th century.
• Aristocracy (Social class) -- Soviet Union.
• Golit͡syn family -- History -- 20th century.
• Sheremetev family -- History -- 20th century.