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Brave, talented and singularly determined, Henriette Safonoff lived through some of the most turbulent events of her time. In this captivating account, her granddaughter traces Henriette's life from her privileged childhood in Tsarist Russia and her days as a student in Edinburgh and Frankfurt to her fortuitous journey through Nazi Germany in August 1939. Displaced by the German invasion of her Baltic homeland in 1915, Henriette experienced the terror and deprivation of the Russian Revolution in Moscow before fleeing to Riga, where she went on to pursue a career as an international mezzo-soprano, until war once again intervened.

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Alternating between historical events and intimate close-ups, extracts from Henriette's memoir dazzle like arias against Scott's elegant prose. A compelling portrait of a remarkable woman living in remarkable times. (The Lady);Isabel Maxwell Scott's charming memoir of her grandmother, Henriette Safonoff, recalls the life of a Russian family in change, revolution and war during the first half of the 20th century...a vibrant travelogue of the countries and cities where Henriette lived and which Maxwell Scott visited so as to better understand the fabric of her grandmother's life. (University of Edinburgh Journal)

Alternating between historical events and intimate close-ups, extracts from Henriette's memoir dazzle like arias against Scott's elegant prose. A compelling portrait of a remarkable woman living in remarkable times. (The Lady) Isabel Maxwell Scott's charming memoir of her grandmother, Henriette Safonoff, recalls the life of a Russian family in change, revolution and war during the first half of the 20th century...a vibrant travelogue of the countries and cities where Henriette lived and which Maxwell Scott visited so as to better understand the fabric of her grandmother's life. (University of Edinburgh Journal)

Alternating between historical events and intimate close-ups, extracts from Henriette's memoir dazzle like arias against Scott's elegant prose. A compelling portrait of a remarkable woman living in remarkable times. (The Lady)

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Isabel Maxwell Scott studied Spanish at London University and worked as an interpreter; as an art historian, she lectured on fine and decorative arts. Inspired by her Russian grandmother's memoir, she has spent the last ten years researching the geopolitical and cultural background to Baltic Summers, Russian Winter. Isabel has two sons and two grandsons and lives in London with her husband.

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