A ringside seat to the Russian revolution

Some sights still trouble Elena de Villaine. “Even now, I can’t bear the sight of snow,” she says. “For me, snow is blood. And I think my brother Kyril is the same.” She is talking about events in her childhood more than 90 years ago, when she and her brother were growing up in St Petersburg in the midst of the Russian revolution.

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