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MEMOIRS OF A RUSSIAN LADY

on BBC Home Service Basic

Elisabeth Tcheremissinov
Introduced by DAVID ROBINSON
Miss TCHEREMISSINOV was born in 1877 of a wealthy St. Petersburg family. She was presented to the Tsarina, took up sculpture and made a bust of Chaliapin. had an interview with Rasputin, visited exiled friends in Siberia. Before her death in 1962 she recorded her memories of these events and of the Russia of her childhood, where the kitchen was a remote establishment never visited, and noble-men might still take pot-shots at Jews.
Broadcast on Aug. 21, 1964

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Elisabeth Tcheremissinov
Introduced By:
David Robinson

BBC Home Service Basic

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