Nadezhda Vasil'evna Plevitskaia Memoirs, 1930
Collection context
- Creator:
- Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡ , Nadezhda Vasilʹevna, 1884-1940
- Extent:
- 3 items 3 items
- Language:
- Russian .
- Scope and content:
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These memoirs, in three notebooks(163 p.), were apparently the manuscript of the second part of her memoirs"Moĭ put ́s pesneĭ" (1930); they cover pages 7-98 of that work, from 1909 to World War I. The manuscript is in an unidentified hand, with extensive corrections and additions in, apparently, two other hands.
- Biographical / historical:
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A singer, Plevitskai︠a︡ emigrated to France and along with her third husband, General Skoblin, was implicated in the kidnapping of White general Evgeniĭ Miller; she died in prison.
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