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Eltered world of Smolni with authenticity and has provided colourful glimpses of St Petersburg and the greater world outside. This was one of my favorite books as a kid I recently remembered it for some random reason and thought it was interesting that it had gone out of print Somehow that made me want to reread it It s actually still uite good It s a boarding school story and I always loved those The history is woven in rather than going off in lecture tangents which is a mixed blessing you don t get dragged out of the story but you don t learn all that much of substance It was really interesting to notice how they d just finished fighting Napoleon several of the students had lost their fathers in battle and Waterloo occurs partway through the book but everyone still spoke French instead of Russian and hired French tailors and teachers It was realistic than some modern stories in that you basically just get their day to day ro
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During which the shy protected child grows to be a young woman about to face a challenging future Mara Kay has evoked the sh. My favourite book as a child I read it over and over again fantastic
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SET IN RUSSIA over 150 years ago this book follows Masha through her 9 years at Smolni an elite girls boarding school years. Childhood favorite I just wish it would come back into print
My favourite book of all time if only it could be reprinted
After her father dies at Borodino fighting Napoleon in 1812 Masha an unsophisticated and shy child becomes eligible to attend a boarding school for young ladies in St Petersburg called Smolni Institute It's nine years of boarding school with any holidays They are educated for a role in society but also receive a proper edu
Childhood favorite I just wish it would come back into print
I still love to read these books even forty years on
My favourite book as a child I read it over and over again fantastic
This and the seuel 'The Youngest Ladt in Waiting' are my favourite books and I'm so excited that they are both to be republished in Octobercan not wait
Really enjoyed this peek into the world of St Petersburg Russia circa 1814 1820 The concerns of the people The men lost in the war of 1812 often leaving estates that become impoverished since they are gone The adoration of the royal family The not speaking of the native language Russian by the wealthy as if its the poorest of English cockney How specifically a wealthy girls school operated what the students and teachers were like how the s
This was one of my favorite books as a kid I recently remembered it for some random reason and thought it was interesting that it had gone out of print Somehow that made me want to reread it It's actually still uite good It's a boarding school story and I always loved those The history is woven in rather than go
I remember borrowing this book in a hardcover edition with the girls in their brown uniforms from the library when I was a child I ha
I loved this book as a child It stayed with me and I'm so glad it is to be reprinted I remember her being given a glass ring and putting it on a branch of her favourite tree Years later she goes back and the metal has long since eroded away but the glass is still there buried in the bark