Red Princess - Hardcover

Zinovieff, Sofka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605980099 ISBN 13: 9781605980096

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2008

Synopsis

Documents Sofka Dolgorouky's life from her childhood exile from St. Petersburgh and embrace of Paris's bohemian culture through her two marriages and work within a Nazi prison camp in support of the French Resistance, where she forged the communist ideals that marked her political career.

About this title

About the Author:

Sofka Zinovieff was inspired to uncover the sensational life of her grandmother after stumbling across one of Sophy's diaries written during the occupation. A trained anthropologist and journalist, Zinovieff lives in Athens, Greece.

From Publishers Weekly:

No Hollywood fantasy is more exciting than this true story of a Russian princess in exile who becomes a bohemian, free lover and Communist. WWII was a turning point for the woman who had traveled Europe, married and divorced and borne three children (possibly with different fathers). In 1940, while in France, Sofka was detained in a German camp, developed Resistance contacts and aided Jewish inmates. Soon after the war, in England, she joined the Communist Party, eventually led tours of the Soviet Union, but ended her itinerant life in England. Written by Sofka's granddaughter and based on her published memoir, an unpublished diary kept during the war and voluminous new research, the power of this biography is in its historical breadth as well as Zinovieff's ability to conjure the specificity of time and place through Sofka's experiences of the 20th century's major political and culture events. At times a focus on Zinovieff's biographical detective work slightly slows the pace, but overall, this is a notable story told with elan and an eye for historical and social detail. Photos, map. (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605980099
• ISBN 13: 9781605980096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346