In exile, White Russian activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, and double agents plotted from both sides, to little avail. Some intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers eked out a living at menial jobs a few found success until the economic downturn of the 1930s hit. Former princes drove taxicabs, while their wives found work in the fashion houses. Many came to France's glittering capital, Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with only the clothes on their backs.

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Many Russians became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness. Some intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers.

The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris.

After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport