A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

by ChaeRan Y. Freeze

Book Overview

Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines in Imperial Russia.
For more than seventy-five years, Poliakova kept detailed diaries of her world, giving us a rare look into the exclusive world of Jewish elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684580013
• ISBN13: 9781684580019
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"