Category: Historical Research
Sophie’s Choice
“You have, of course, seen more than once the album of a provincial miss…” An Encyclopedia of Russian Life in a German Rendition. The Diary of Sophie Knorring Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov (about the…
Sophie’s Choice. Part II.
“All started furtively to talk, to joke, to comment not without some malice, a suitor for Tatiana to assign. Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov (Young men in the Knorring household) To be the granddaughter of…
The Three Velho Sisters:
The Forgotten Baronesses of Tsarskoye Selo Article Author: Historian Sergei Gavrilov When speaking of Pushkin’s female circle during his Lyceum years, Ekaterina Bakunina or Natalia Kochubey are most often recalled. But living right alongside the…
