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Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead. I'm the president and a portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers and book junkies. It can be

said that leaders are readers and we believe books provide us a great source of information

for filtering what is and isn't important for us as investors.

Investing is the last great liberal art and the best way to spend a lifetime of learning.

This podcast is for readers, thinkers, business-minded people, and investors who want to grow their knowledge from great authors and their writing.

Charlie Munger often talks about using multiple mental models and analysis.

Our aim for this podcast is to help listeners test Munger's theory in business, markets, and people.

Thank you for joining us for this episode of the podcast. We're going to look at the romanticization

of a country and culture down to the downfall of their own monarchy and the remnants of the people that really built

and survived that monarchy.

Joining us today is Helen Rappaport

to discuss her newly published book

after the Romanovs, Russian exiles in Paris,

from the Bell-a-Poc through revolution and war.

To give you a little background on Helen,

Helen is a Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling

author, including her 2017 book, Caught in the Revolution, and her 2014 title, The Romanov Sisters.

She specializes in the period of 1837 to 1918 in late imperial and revolutionary Russian and

Victorian British history. She has written 14 books covering her vast knowledge of these subjects.

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