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A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astophe de Custine
Astolphe de Custine's Russia in 1839 was called "the best guide to Russia ever written;" essential to understanding Stalin and the Soviet Union. Astolphe was a son of the French Revolution, whose father and grandfather had been guillotined and whose mother had been imprisoned.
Paperback, 291 pages
Published
April 1st 2008
by Turtle Point Press
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Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935. She has published biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine, a study on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria, and a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart. She is currently writing a volume on Proust as a reader. She has won two prizes from the Académie Française, and the...more
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