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Fleeing revolution: Russians exiles in Paris

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 1917, the Russian Revolution saw scores of Russian aristocrats and artists flee to Paris to escape Bolshevik brutality. Speaking to Matt Elton, Helen Rappaport highlights some of their stories, exploring the dramatic shift in circumstances that many endured, and revealing what the city’s inhabitants made of the new arrivals. (Ad) Helen Rappaport is the author of After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the Wars (Scribe Publications, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fafter-the-romanovs%2Fhelen-rappaport%2F9781914484292 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:32.3

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

0:35.7

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:48.1

Paris has long been a popular destination among Russian elites. But in 1917, the Russian Revolution saw

0:57.1

unprecedented scores of aristocrats and artists flee to the city. Speaking to Matt Elton,

1:03.9

Helen Rappaport charts some of their stories, the dramatic shift in circumstances that many

1:08.9

endured, and what the city's inhabitants made

1:11.9

of the new arrivals.

1:14.1

Helen, your fascinating new book after the Romanovs tells a kind of a group biography of

1:19.5

some people who were dislocated by the currents of world history and whose lives tell

1:25.4

us something about the time in which they lived.

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