Tattered Banners: An Autobiography

“With his eye for detail, his taste for anecdote, and his sheer delight in the process of living, Rodzianko has created a delightful, if often sad, work.”—Gary Saul Morson, from his new foreword for this first American edition

"Capacious, powerful, and subtle—a forgotten work with real claims to historic interest and aesthetic value . . . It is Paradise Lost as told by Dostoevsky."—Washington Independent Review of Books

Born into Russian aristocracy at the e...