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This book was not intended to be published, and it is to accident that we owe its appearance. The author, from her childhood, followed affection ate advices and good examples, and noted every day her impressions of everything she saw and heard…


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The memoirs of Princess Varvara Fedorovna Golitsyna are the female equivalent of Samuel Pepys’ famous diaries, only more interesting. In 1876, the princess married Sergei Mikhailovich Dukhovskoi, already a distinguished senior officer at thirty-eight. In the Turkish War (1877-1878) Sergei Mikhailovich distinguished himself, and his young wife proved herself a determined and resourceful woman, as she was determined to join him—at great risk to herself. As an important senior officer, he spent a great deal of time in Western Europe, so the couple traveled all over, and the greater part of the book consists of Varvara Fedorovna’s accounts of their…

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