"Valse Des Fleurs" 1944 SITWELL, Sacheverell The Vanderbilts

"Valse Des Fleurs" 1944 SITWELL, Sacheverell The VanderbiltsA Day in St. Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868 SITWELL, Sacheverell [151] pp. Faber and Faber 1944 Fourth Impression 7 5 8" x 5" Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter's day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar is giving a ball, and in the run up we are given a glimpse of a lost generation of courtiers, servants, guards, officials and dignitaries later condemned to oblivion by the Russian Revolution. Though slim enough

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The film was directed by George Cukor and starred Norma Shearer (to whom the book is dedicated) and Leslie Howard

restoration of the Petit Trianon and reconstruction of The Queen's Chamber at Versailles

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the stories also feature many regular characters