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Sophie Knorring’s Diary. November 1841.
← Read October, 1841 | To be continued → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and…
Sophie Knorring’s Diary. October 1841.
← Read September 1841 | November 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
Sophie Knorring’s Diary. September 1841.
← Read August 1841 | October 1841 → Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the…
Sophie Knorring’s diary. June, August 1841.
Begun around May 1, 1841, at her parents’ estate of Paslep, completed around March 1, 1842, in St. Petersburg *. The discoverer of this document and the author of the detailed commentary on the text…
Diary of Sophie Knorring. Part 1 – May 1841.
The winter of 1841–42. A young, sharp-tongued, and brilliantly educated Sophie Knorring from a powerful Baltic lineage arrives in the very heart of glittering St. Petersburg to distract herself from family upheavals and the personal drama of a broken engagement, to savor the capital’s cultural life, and perhaps to secure a suitable match. For nearly a year, she remains at the epicenter of high society, and her private entries become an ironic and remarkably candid mirror of the Pushkin era.
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…
