42 Years in the Realm of the Czar & the Soviets
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Rasputin modelled for Miss Krarup for twelve different portraits. She gives us a new and captivating picture of the Siberian peasant who became the imperial family’s confidant and Russia’s real ruler.
Description
42 Years in the Realm of the Czar & the Soviets is a book about the Danish painter Miss Theodora Krarup’s experiences in St. Petersburg, later Leningrad, 1896 – 1938.
Among the variegated gallery of historic occurrences and people, we meet Rasputin who modeled for Miss Krarup for twelve different portraits. She gives us a new and captivating picture of the Siberian peasant who became the imperial family’s confidant and Russia’s real ruler. She tells of Empress Dagmar, of the great court festivals at the winter palace, of Danish artists in Russia and she tells of Elenora Duse, Sarah Bernhard, Isadora Duncan and Lady Astor.
42 Years in the Realm of the Czar & the Soviets is translated from the Danish publication by Carl Aastrup, a Canadian living in Prince George. The original book was published in 1941 just three months after Krarup died.
