Kathleen ffrench: An Irish Woman in Czarist Russia

Kathleen ffrench lived a storybook life, a life of opulence in a world on the brink of destruction. The headstrong child of an Irish diplomat and a Russian heiress, she grew up on her family's estates by the Volga, touring the capitals of Europe with barons and princesses, and visiting a home away from home: her father's castle in Galway. In the 1917 Russian Revolution she was lucky to survive peasant uprisings and the brutality of Bolshevik prisons. Later she travelled to Eastern Siberia where she spent months searching for her missing lover. Drawing on the candid letters of Kathleen and her family, Jean Lombard's deeply personal insights take readers into a vanished world, where the colourful people we meet are surprisingly like our own.

Author: Jean Lombard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 08/04/2015
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9781515308539
ISBN10: 1515308537
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical

About the Author
Jean Lombard (née McMurtry) comes originally from Dublin where she met her future husband John, a journalist, in Guinness's Brewery. After working in Moscow as a nanny, she migrated to Australia and married John, a cousin of Kathleen ffrench. In 1988 they opened the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's first bureau in the former USSR. While John reported the collapse of Soviet Communism, Jean travelled widely, researching Kathleen's life and letters.

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