Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (88 page)

51. The final prison photograph of Vladimir Trubetskoy. He was shot on October 30, 1937, the same day as his daughter Varvara. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)

52. Of all the Trubetskoy children, Varvara (“Varya”) made the greatest effort to fit into the Soviet system. Regardless, she was arrested in July 1937 and charged with having taken part in the plot to kill the Leningrad boss Sergei Kirov. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)

53. The final photograph of Varya Trubetskoy. It was more than half a century until the surviving family members learned that she and her father had been shot in the autumn of 1937. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)

54. Arrested around the same time as her father, her sister Varya, and her brother Grigory, Alexandra “Tatya” Trubetskoy was charged with plotting to kill Stalin and sentenced to ten years in the gulag. The harsh regimen destroyed her health, and she died in 1943 at the age of twenty-four. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)

55. The final photographs of Eli Trubetskoy, taken shortly before her death from typhus in Moscow’s Butyrki prison on February 7, 1943. (Courtesy of Mikhail Trubetskoy)

ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH

Working the Rough Stone

Love and Conquest

The Pearl

First published 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York

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Table of Contents

Title page

Dedication page

Epigraph page

Contents

Note on Dates and Spelling

Principal Figures

Family Trees

Maps

Prologue

PART I: BEFORE THE DELUGE

1. Russia, 1900

2. The Sheremetevs

3. The Golitsyns

4. The Last Dance

PART II: 1917

5. The Fall of the Romanovs

6. A Country of Mutinous Slaves

7. The Bolshevik Coup

PART III: CIVIL WAR

8. Expropriating the Expropriators

9. The Corner House

10. Spa Town Hell

11. Bogoroditsk

12. Dr. Golitsyn

13. Exodus

PART IV: NEP

14. School of Life

15. Noble Remains

16. The Fox-trot Affair

17. Virtue in Rags

PART V: STALIN’S RUSSIA

18. The Great Break

19. The Death of Parnassus

20. Outcasts

21. The Mouse, the Kerosene, and the Match

22. Anna’s Fortune

23. Happy Times

24. Poisonous Snakes and the Avenging Sword: Operation Former People

25. The Great Terror

26. War: The End

Epilogue

Note on Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

List of Illustrations

Copyright page

Table of Contents

Title page

Dedication page

Epigraph page

Contents

Note on Dates and Spelling

Principal Figures

Family Trees

Maps

Prologue

PART I: BEFORE THE DELUGE

1. Russia, 1900

2. The Sheremetevs

3. The Golitsyns

4. The Last Dance

PART II: 1917

5. The Fall of the Romanovs

6. A Country of Mutinous Slaves

7. The Bolshevik Coup

PART III: CIVIL WAR

8. Expropriating the Expropriators

9. The Corner House

10. Spa Town Hell