When Miss Emmie was in Russia: English governesses before, during and after the October Revolution by Harvey Pitcher
English | December 1st, 2012 | ASIN: B00B9CO4UA, ISBN: 0719533325, 1906011494 | 284 Pages | EPUB | 1.81 MB
Through the prism of the experiences of five British governesses working in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, Harvey Pitcher paints a rich and intimate portrait of pre Revolutionary Russian society and finds himself with a unique eyewitness perspective on the Russian Revolution and the civil war which swept that society into oblivion.