Victor Sebestyen

‘The strangest of lives’: the plight of White Russians in Paris

Fleeing the revolution and forced to scrape a living as taxi drivers and seamstresses, the exiles were generally a melancholy crowd, united by mutual loathing

Chanel with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich in Paris. [Alamy]
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  • After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

    Helen Rappaport

    Scribe, pp. 336, £20

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