Former People, Paperback

Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this book expertly recounts the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Drawing on the private archives of two great families, the Sheremetovs and the Golitsyns, this is also a gripping story of survival, and of how many of the tsarist ruling class, or 'former people' overcame the loss of their world and struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile world of the Soviet Union.