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Title: Book in Russian, translated as “Memories of the Royal family’s life before and after the revolution” Author: Botkina-Melnik, Tatiana Place: Belgrade Publisher: [AllSlavic bookstore of M.I. Steafanovich & Co.] Date: 1921 Description: 83 pp. With 16 plates from photographs, some with multiple images; facsimiles of letters & documents. 30.4x23 cm. (12x9"), original printed wrappers. First Edition. Scarce memoir of life in Imperial Russia and the Revolution. Tatiana Evgenievna Botkina-Melnik (1898-1986) was the daughter of court physician Eugene Botkin, who was killed along with Tsar Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918. Botkina and her brother accompanied their father into exile with the Romanov family following the Russian Revolution of 1917. When the family was transferred from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, the Botkin children were not permitted to accompany their father. She thus was able to survive, and escaped from Russia through Vladivostok and eventually settled in Rives, France. The Botkin children "were not intimate friends" of the imperial children, Botkina later recalled, but they did know them fairly well. They first met the imperial children in 1911 and, thereafter, sometimes played with them when they were on vacation in the Crimea. Up until 1988 the book was in the list of "spetskhran," banned from import and sale in the USSR. Lot Amendments Condition: Wrappers repaired at spine and top edge of front wrapper, a few repairs within, contents darkened as is the norm; very good. Item number: 244637