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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…
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.
