Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Douglas Smith Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Bibliothèque de Westmount) Critique du New Republic Using three generations of the aristocratic Sheremetev family of St. Petersburg and the Golitsyns of Moscow, Smith shows that the nobility in Russia was Russia; its downfall was “the end of a long and deservedly proud tradition that created much of what…