Conflict, War and Revolution - My Life

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hunangofiant y Farwnes Alessandra Kozlowska (1892-1975), yn cofnodi dyfalbarhad un wraig yn ystod dau chwyldro yn Rwsia, y rhyfeloedd cartref a'r Rhyfeloedd Byd a ddilynodd. Mae'n stori am fuddugoliaethau annisgwyl ac, yn anffodus, am drychinebau anorfod.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Conflict, War and Revolution - My Life is the memoir of Baroness Alessandra Kozlowska (1892-1975). A vivid retelling of her life, this remarkable book gives a first-hand account of one woman's endurance of two Russian revolutions, the resulting civil war and two world wars. It is a story of unlikely triumphs and, sadly, inevitable disasters.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Baroness Alessandra Kozlowska (1892-1975) was born in the Krasnodar province of the Caucasus to a wealthy family in oil. Having endured the first Russian revolution in 1905 she had married Polish nobleman Thomas Perutz and was living in Russia, Poland and Germany by the First World War. She retreated to Russia during the war where she survived the 1917 revolution but fled the country during the subsequent civil war. For most of the rest of her life she lived in Italy, where her husband was a diplomat for the newly formed nation of Poland.