Douglas Smith

Lost Nobility: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy

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It is a story of epic proportions, and a heartbreaking human drama at the same time. Nobility Lost is the first book about the forgotten history of the losers of the Russian Revolution: the aristocracy. Overtaken by the Bolsheviks, the ‘discarded people’ were dragged into the creation of the new Russia, Stalin’s Russia. Theirs is a story of plundered palaces and burning estates, of desperate escapes in the dead of night, of imprisonment, exile and execution. It is the story of a centuries-old elite that was brutally dispossessed and exterminated, along with the rest of the old Russia. Yet Nobility Lost is also a story of adaptation and survival. Many from the former tsarist upper class struggled through the loss of their world and the years of oppression that followed, and tried to carve out a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Through the fates of two prominent aristocratic families, the Sheremetyevs and the Golitsyns, Smith shows how even during the darkest days of terror, daily life went on as usual. Lost Nobility is written with great empathy and a sense of nuance. It is not only a dramatic portrait of the once so rich and powerful aristocratic upper class, but also a compelling history of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century.

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