Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873) - Marina Soroka - Bog

Becoming a Romanov offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the era, the Romanovs' role in them, the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources, published documents and l