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After the Romanovs

by Helen Rappaport

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · October 23, 2022

Zombies, exiles and monsters

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A history of Russian exiles living in Paris after the 1917 Revolution, detailing how former princes accustomed to luxury ended up driving taxicabs, while some émigrés like Diaghilev and Chagall found success, and others became trapped in poverty and homesickness for a country that was no longer theirs.

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