Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? From her childhood in the siege of Leningrad to her old age amid the glitz of modern St Petersburg, The Girl from the Hermitage is a portrait of the evolution from the Soviet Union to present-day Russia told seen through one woman's eyes
Published to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Dynastic Rule celebrates one of the great success stories of a stormy period of Russian history.