Aye, they don't make 'em like that any more. "A Russian Countess who escaped the Soviet Union by posing as a Polish refugee, a travelling musician and even a Red Army nurse has had her life laid bare for the first time in her memoir. Countess Edith Sollohub, the daughter of a high-ranking diplomat, had been destined to join the social and intellectual elite of Imperial Russia. But the 1917 revolution revolution put her life in grave danger, and she found herself trapped under the new order, separated from her three sons and stripped of her possessions. She would endure hunger, imprisonment and loneliness in the quest to escape Russia and be reunited with her family. Her thrilling tale of danger, war and escape is told in the book, The Russian Countess, which has been translated into English for a new release. It was compiled by her children following the Countess's death in 1965. The foreword in the new edition is written by Robert Chandler, who studied Russian at Winchester College under Edith's son, Nicolas. 'Edith Sollohub was intelligent, perceptive and endowed with the gift of trust,' he wrote in the book's foreword. 'She trusted her intuition, and her intuition did not let her down. Time and again during her two years in Soviet Russia, in situations where the wrong choice would have meant death, she trusted the right person." Russian Countess Edith Sollohub's escape from Soviet Union | Daily Mail Online
