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FROSSIA - E. M. Almedingen - Harcourt Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Edith Almedingen was born in St. Petersburg 46 years ago. Her autobiography, Tomorrow Will Come, was a slight, delicate and frightening record of her first 24 years. It began with a poetic evocation of St. Petersburg, ended with her escape to Italy-a steppingstone to her home in England, where she landed in 1923, "tired, ill, and more than uncertain of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Author. When Edith Almedingen was ten, she talked to Leo Tolstoy about Homer. So, at least, her kinspeople told her. Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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