Education of a Princess: A Memoir

xii, 388 pp. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt titles. Plates throughout, as well as a fold-out genealogy of the Romanovs. An autobiography by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, who generally went by Marie (the French version of her name). She describes her life during times of political strife in her country, which led to the exile of a number of family members, and ultimately herself as well when the Bolsheviks seized power.