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A woman records personal recollections and travel memoirs that move from early childhood and society life through marriage and wartime episodes to long tours across Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia, North America and East and Southeast Asia. The narrative prioritizes vivid impressions of places, social scenes, and notable persons, offering character sketches and descriptive travel writing rather than political analysis. Interwoven are accounts of colonial outposts, frontier life along the Amur, and the demands of public service, all presented with candid, observant detail and a charitable impulse behind publication.

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Title: The diary of a Russian lady

reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née princesse Galitzine)

Author: Varvara Dukhovskaia

Release date: June 30, 2024 [eBook #73953]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: John Long, Limited, 1917

Credits: Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DIARY OF A RUSSIAN LADY ***

The Diary of
a Russian Lady

yours faithfully

Barbara Doukhovskoy

THE DIARY OF A
RUSSIAN LADY

REMINISCENCES OF
BARBARA DOUKHOVSKOY
(née Princesse Galitzine)

“Lived through but not forgotten”

WITH TWO PORTRAITS

LONDON
JOHN LONG, LIMITED
12, 13 & 14 NORRIS STREET, HAYMARKET
MCMXVII