About the Author

The author: aura Victoir studied International Relations at Brown University, USA, and holds an M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford, UK. She is now a doctoral student in European History and Senior Scholar at Hertford College Oxford residing in New York City.The author of the foreword: Dr Priscilla Roosevelt is an independent scholar residing in Washington, DC, and the cofounder and president of American Friends of the Russian Country Estate.