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The Golden Apple of Samarkand
A True Story of Splendour, Tragedy, Humour and Hope
Buch von Lala Wilbraham
Sprache: Englisch

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Lala plays with her diamond ring, mesmerized as always by the distant world it conjures for her and the jewel's extraordinary trajectory from Tsarist Russia to twenty-first-century England. An unexpected invitation has arrived and, at last, she will be able to visit Lentvaris, her paternal grandmother's ancestral home, a splendid East European estate where princely art collections, spectacular jewellery, extravagant balls and performing dwarves, coexisted with philanthropy on a grand scale and a deep sense of noblesse oblige.The First World War irrevocably altered the family's privileged lives, Lala's great-uncle was forced to flee with the last of the Romanov dynasty and her great-grandfather auctioned off his art treasures. The Second World War lost Lentvaris for ever. Lala's grandfather died in a Soviet gulag. Her grandmother, aunt and father survived harsh imprisonment and afterwards crossed continents eventually finding precarious stability living as émigrés in South America. This is an epic story of dramatic escapes, concealed treasures, a lost paradise, but especially of the courage, strength and resilience shown by the female side of Lala's family, and of the power of love, humour and hope.
Lala plays with her diamond ring, mesmerized as always by the distant world it conjures for her and the jewel's extraordinary trajectory from Tsarist Russia to twenty-first-century England. An unexpected invitation has arrived and, at last, she will be able to visit Lentvaris, her paternal grandmother's ancestral home, a splendid East European estate where princely art collections, spectacular jewellery, extravagant balls and performing dwarves, coexisted with philanthropy on a grand scale and a deep sense of noblesse oblige.The First World War irrevocably altered the family's privileged lives, Lala's great-uncle was forced to flee with the last of the Romanov dynasty and her great-grandfather auctioned off his art treasures. The Second World War lost Lentvaris for ever. Lala's grandfather died in a Soviet gulag. Her grandmother, aunt and father survived harsh imprisonment and afterwards crossed continents eventually finding precarious stability living as émigrés in South America. This is an epic story of dramatic escapes, concealed treasures, a lost paradise, but especially of the courage, strength and resilience shown by the female side of Lala's family, and of the power of love, humour and hope.
Über den Autor
Lala Wilbraham has worked as a research assistant, interpreter, and translator. She lives in the Cotswolds with her dogs.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 240
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781913491802
ISBN-10: 1913491803
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wilbraham, Lala
Hersteller: Unicorn Publishing Group
Maße: 166 x 242 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Lala Wilbraham
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,784 kg
preigu-id: 120343190
Über den Autor
Lala Wilbraham has worked as a research assistant, interpreter, and translator. She lives in the Cotswolds with her dogs.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 240
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781913491802
ISBN-10: 1913491803
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wilbraham, Lala
Hersteller: Unicorn Publishing Group
Maße: 166 x 242 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Lala Wilbraham
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,784 kg
preigu-id: 120343190
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