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Life on the estate. Memories of a Russian Lady

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Mariamna Davydova’s memoirs are a unique testimony to rural Russia before the revolution. She was born in 1871 and had to flee the country with her family in 1919. Bright, detailed watercolors of the artist create a charming and touching addition to her memories, which tells about life in the country estate: clothes and furniture, entertainment and holidays, peasants and servants, gardens and farms, as well as daily and seasonal traditions from the life of Russia in the era of Chekhov and Turgenev. Stories and drawings are perfectly combined, sharing the longing for lost time, at the same time vividly conveying the feeling of then life and family happiness.

The text was translated from the first, English-language edition of the book in 1986, 25 years after the death of Mariamna Davydova (she lived in America after the war), translator V. Belugin.

Selection of drawings and preparation of the text by Olga Davydova-Dax.
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