Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith is a translator and historian, and has written several books about Russian history. His book Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy won the inaugural Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in 2013, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was chosen Book of the Year by Andrew Solomon in Salon.
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