num_pages: 282
description: Countess Edith Sollohub, born Edith Natalie de Martens, was well known in pre-revolutionarySt. Petersburg for accompanying her husband Alexander on shooting and ridingtrips and for being outstandingly accurate with her gun. She was the daughter ofa high-ranking Russian diplomat, and the mother of three young sons, destined to jointhe social and intellectual elite of imperial Russia. The Revolution of 1917 changed thecourse of these lives.By December 1918 her husband was dead, her children separated from her by the closingof the frontiers, and her own life was in danger. This is her account of how she facedthese traumatic events, revealing the courage and determination she had shown inCountess Edith Sollohub, born Edith Natalie de Martens, was well known in pre-revolutionarySt. Petersburg for accompanying her husband Alexander on shooting and ridingtrips and for being outstandingly accurate with her gun. She was the daughter ofa high-ranking Russian diplomat, and the mother of three young sons, destined to jointhe social and intellectual elite of imperial Russia. The Revolution of 1917 changed thecourse of these lives.By December 1918 her husband was dead, her children separated from her by the closingof the frontiers, and her own life was in danger. This is her account of how she facedthese traumatic events, revealing the courage and determination she had shown inearlier times that helped her endure hunger, imprisonment, and loneliness. Her reunionwith her sons in 1921 makes the months of danger and deprivation worthwhile.
language: English
title: The Russian Countess: Escaping Revolutionary Russia
publisher: Impress Books