Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Zinaida Volkonsky

by Maria Fairweather

Book Overview

Charming, intelligent, and abundantly talented, the beautiful Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna Volkonsky embodied the romantic spirit of an age that her fascinating life epitomized. At the Russian imperial court of Alexander I in the early 1800s, the young Zinaida captured the heart of the czar himself before her marriage to his aide-de-camp Prince Volkonsky took her across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. Afterward, at the peace celebrations, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078670831X
• ISBN13: 9780786708314
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"