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FORMER PEOPLE The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy DOUGLAS SMITH FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX New York The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. TO EMMA AND ANDREW There is no more Russian nobility. There is no more Russian aristocracy…A future historian will describe in precise detail how this class died. You will read this account, and you will experience madness and horror… —The Red Newspaper (Petrograd), No. 10, January 14, 1922 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. Go......