num_pages: 224
description: 
  Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award
In The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, and on stories passed down from father to son, he comes to terms with the meaning of his family's memories and histories. Focusing on his grandparents, Count Paul Ignatieff and Princess Natasha Mestchersky, he recreates their lives before, during, and after the Russian Revolution.
language: English
title: The Russian Album
titlecomplete: The Russian Album
genres: Family, Biography, World War I, Canada, Memoir, Nonfiction, Russian History, Russia, History
ratings_count: 173
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Picador