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Education Of A Princess: A Memoir; Translated from the French & Russian under the editorial supervision of Russell Lord
193111935New York: The Viking Press 1931. First Edition Second Printing. Quarter Leather. Near fine. Education of a Princess by Maria Pavlovna Grand Duchess of Russia. Octavo xii 388pp. Quarter maroon leather maroon cloth boards title in gilt on spine. The second printing with the first appearing in 1930. Frontispiece portrait and numerous full page maps throughout. Top edge in gilt marbled endpapers. Binding by Henry Sotheran LTD. An attractive example in a fine binding. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia 1890-1958 was a granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia. She served as a nurse during WWI until the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1917. In 1918 the Bolsheviks began asserting power murdering members of her family. She escaped and eventually arrived in Bucharest Romania. In the 1920s she moved to the United States meeting with publishers and eventually writing two autobiographies titled Education of a Princess and A Princess in Exile. She eventually returned to Europe in 1949 and died in 1958. She was a first cousin of both Nicholas II last Emperor of Russia and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. The Viking Press unknown
