Tamara: Memoirs of St. Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium

by Tamara Talbot Rice

This autobiography charts the travels of Tamara Talbot Rice. It encompasses pre-Revolutionary Russia, emigre penury in London and Paris, Oxford in the Brideshead years and country life in Gloucestershire, as well as pioneering digs in Asia Minor and academic life in Edinburgh.

274 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1996

About the author

Tamara Talbot Rice was a Russian then English art historian, writing on Byzantine, Russian and Central Asian art. Talbot Rice was born Elena Abelson, to Louisa Elizabeth Vilenkin and Israel Boris Abelevich Abelson, the latter a businessman and member of the Czar's financial administration, a privileged family which fled Russia in 1917. Married David Talbot Rice and worked with him during the late 1920s and 30s.

She began to publish after the second world war writing on Russian Art and Russian history as well as on the art and history of the Scythians, Seljuks, and Byzantines.