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In Quisling's Shadow - The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra (Paperback)
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In Quisling's Shadow - The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's First Wife, Alexandra (Paperback)
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Loot Price R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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"For more than sixty years the truth about what happened to me so
long ago has been deliberately hidden, and soon I, too, shall be a
mute memory. I want to tell what I know so that one day, perhaps,
the whole truth may be known."
Alexandra Andreevna Voronine and her mother lived in Kharkov alone,
destitute, and fearing for their lives because of World War I,
revolution, civil war, and famine. When Alexandra went to work in
1921 at the office that was coordinating Russian and foreign famine
relief, she met Captain Vidkun Quisling, Fridtjof Nansen's
representative in the Ukraine. In 1922, at the age of seventeen,
she married the man whose name became synonymous with traitor
during World War II and accompanied him to Oslo.
Abandoned in Paris within a year, penniless and unaware of being a
pawn in a game of international intrigue, Alexandra remained under
Quisling's strict control for several more years. When her
tumultuous life eventually took her to China, she married George W.
Yourieff, who supported her efforts to recall and analyze her years
as Quisling's wife. A further tide of events saw the Yourieffs
settled in California, and in 1980 they began a collaboration with
the Norwegian-born historian and novelist Kirsten A. Seaver.
The archives Seaver consulted in London and Oslo and at the Hoover
Institution of Stanford University confirmed Alexandra's intensely
personal, episodic recollections about an extraordinary life and
provided the necessary connective tissue. They also revealed to
Alexandra at long last the brutal story behind her lost years.
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