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