After the Romanovs

A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR
The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris.
The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with only the clothes on their backs. Many came to France’s glittering capital, Paris. Former princes drove taxicabs, while their wives found work in the fashion houses. Intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers eked out a living at menial jobs; some found success until the economic downturn of the 1930s hit. In exile, White Russians sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, and double agents plotted from both sides. Many Russians became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness.
This is their story.

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Praise for No Place for Ladies:
‘Poignant and inspirational, well researched yet thoroughly readable, No Place for Ladies is the untold story of war, love, death — and the brave women, from nurses to countesses, who went out to the Crimea.’