A reading advise, book by Douglas Smith, "Former People, the final
days of the Russian Aristocracy". This is the first book to recount
the history of the russian aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of
the Bolshevik Revolution and creation of the Soviet Union. Study based
of the life stories of the pr. Golitzin and counts Cheremeteff
families.
Douglas Smith, is an ward winning historian and translator and the
author of the three previous books on Russia, Before becoming a
historian , he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet
Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty in Munich. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
