The Russian Countess: Escaping Revolutionary Russia

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Father -- 2.) Travels -- 3.) Petersburg -- 4.) Waldensee -- 5.) Marriage -- 6.) Louisino -- 7.) Kamenka -- 8.) Wartime -- 9.) The Revolution Comes -- 10.) Revolution -- 11.) Separation -- 12.) Alone in Petrograd -- 13.) Goodbye to the Past -- 14.) Imprisonment -- 15.) Release -- 16.) Leaving Moscow -- 17.) Mogilev -- 18.) The Military Train -- 19.) Baranowiczi -- 20.) Wolkowysk -- 21.) Escape -- 22.) Reunion. . . . . . . . . . . Countess Edith Sollohub, born Edith Natalie de Martens, was well known in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg for accompanying her husband Alexander on shooting and riding trips and for being outstandingly accurate with her gun. She was the daughter of a high-ranking Russian diplomat, and the mother of three young sons, destined to join the social and intellectual elite of imperial Russia. The Revolution of 1917 changed the course of these lives.