The Russian Countess

A classic of the last years of the tsars that’s essential reading on the regime of tsars and nobles in old Russia. Charming, touching, tragic and thrilling, this is a superb memoir from the doomed but decadent and elegant world of aristocracy and tsardom soon to be shipwrecked’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs

‘A moving and thrilling story, The Russian Countess describes a world descending into chaos during war and revolution a century ago. An epic tale of hope, tinged with sadness and suffering, it will keep you gripped until the final page’ Peter Frankopan, author of Silk Roads

‘Fascinating and beautifully written. Her book is a revelation, and one of the great memoirs from that era…’ Antony Beevor, The Sunday Times

‘Her narrative attains spiritual depth... she had the ability to write vividly and with understanding about all the many people, from very different walks of life, whom she encountered during her journey through post-revolutionary Russia’ Robert Chandler, British poet and literary translator

‘I inhaled it. With echoes of Bunin, Sollohub captures the strange mixture of beauty and terror that was Russia in the first decades of the last century. An iridescent jewel of a book’ Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin and Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy

'An epic and evocative tale of courage and endurance. Edith Sollohub takes us from her privileged life in tsarist Russia through the terror and turmoil of revolution, war, separation from family, imprisonment and a final desperate flight to freedom.' Helen Rappaport, author of Caught in the Revolution and Victoria Letters

‘A thrilling tale of danger, war, and escape’ Daily Mail

‘Distinguished by sharp observation and a strong memory for visual detail’ Barbara Heldt, The Times Literary Supplement

‘A work of immense value as a historical document accessible to a wide reading public... not to be missed’ Russian Life