Research Catalog

Title

A countess in limbo : diaries in war & revolution : Russia 1914-1920, France 1939-1947 / Olga Hendrikoff ; [translations by Maureen Ranson and Evgeny Zilberov].

Author

Hendrikoff, Olga, 1892-1987

Publication

Vancouver : Inkflight, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ranson, Maureen
• Zilberov, Evgeny

Description

458 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

On the eve of her wedding in 1914 came the first rumours of an impending war-- a war that would change Countess Olga "Lala" Hendrikoff's life forever and force her to flee her country as a stateless person, with no country to call home. Spanning two of the most turbulent times in modern history-- World War I in Russia and World War II in Paris-- her journals demonstrate the uncertainty, horror and hope of daily life in the midst of turmoil.

Subject

• Hendrikoff, Olga, 1892-1987 > Diaries
• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• 1914-1945
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, Russian
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Russian
• Nobility > Russia > Diaries
• Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Personal narratives
• Paris (France) > History > 1940-1944

Genre/Form

• Diary
• Personal Narrative
• diaries.
• Diaries.
• History.
• Personal narratives.
• Personal narratives – Russian.
• Journaux intimes.
• Récits personnels.

Note

• Includes index.
• Translations from the Russian and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Images and maps -- Countess Olga Hendrikoff, part I -- 1914-1917: the war -- Countess Olga Hendrikoff, part II -- 1939: war -- 1939: war and occupation -- 1941: occupation -- 1942: occupation -- 1943: occupation -- 1944: occupation and liberation -- 1945: end of the war -- 1946: post-war -- 1947: departure for America -- Countess Olga Hendrikoff, part III -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9781926606781 (bound)
• 9781926606798 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013414682

OCLC

812064567

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library