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When Miss Emmie Was in Russia : English Governesses Before, During and After ...

Description: When Miss Emmie Was in Russia : English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution, Paperback by Pitcher, Harvey, ISBN 1906011494, ISBN-13 9781906011499, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Thousands of English-speaking girls from the British Isles worked as governesses to upper-class Russian society before the Revolution. Th draws on the author's interviews with six of these women who lived and worked in Russia between 1910 and 1920. Their first-hand accounts, rescued just in time (the youngest woman interviewed was 80 years old at the time of th's original publication in 1977 by John Murray), include many details of domestic life, describing the pre-revolutionary world as a complex, humane, and liberal society. Combining details from the women's stories with historical facts and research, th describes the women's struggles to negotiate the turmoil and anarchy of revolution and civil war and their adventures trying to leave the country. An afterword tells what happened to the governesses when they returned, and what is known about the fates of some of the people the governesses worked for in Russia. Pitcher started the Russian Department at the University of St. Andrews in 1963. He has published several books on the British community in Russia before the Revolution. Th is distributed in the US by Dufour. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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Publisher: Eland Publishing The Limited

Book Title: When Miss Emmie Was in Russia : English Governesses Before, During and after the October Revolution

Publication Year: 2011

Topic: Cultural Heritage, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Social History, Labor

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History

Author: Harvey Pitcher

Format: Trade Paperback

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