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This article examines the importance of family and kin to the Russian nobility during the Russian Revolution. It focuses on the experiences of four interrelated families to show how nobles used family connections for a variety of purposes prior to 1917. This helped them to maintain their predominant position within tsarist society. The article argues that these links continued after the revolution, helping nobles survive everyday hardship and official persecution under the new regime; in some cases, surprisingly large family ‘communities’ of nobles emerged. These communities persisted into the 1920s and even when they disbanded the wider family maintained its central position in noble life.
Author(s): Rendle M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Family and Community History
Year: 2005
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Pages: 35-47
ISSN (print): 1463-1180
ISSN (electronic): 1751-3812
Publisher: Maney Publishing
