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... Taissia's closest female relative . Only seventeen when married off by a sick and dying father to the wealthy Roman Shcherbak , Irina was eleven years younger than her husband and only six years older than Taissia , to whom she felt ...
... Taissia's closest female relative . Only seventeen when married off by a sick and dying father to the wealthy Roman Shcherbak , Irina was eleven years younger than her husband and only six years older than Taissia , to whom she felt ...
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... Taissia had come there in exactly the same circumstances as described for Xenia Tomchak in August 1914 , brought by her wealthy father Zakhar , and virtually dumped on the headmistress's doorstep with a plea that she be taken in . In ...
... Taissia had come there in exactly the same circumstances as described for Xenia Tomchak in August 1914 , brought by her wealthy father Zakhar , and virtually dumped on the headmistress's doorstep with a plea that she be taken in . In ...
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... Taissia was thankful to have the security of better quarters . It would seem that by the mid to late thirties Taissia's situation with regard to work had somewhat improved . She was no longer chased from job to job , and she had begun ...
... Taissia was thankful to have the security of better quarters . It would seem that by the mid to late thirties Taissia's situation with regard to work had somewhat improved . She was no longer chased from job to job , and she had begun ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
FAREWELL TO THE OLD WORLD | 60 |
Copyright | |
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