Edith Sollohub

Edith Sollohub taught herself to type in order to support herself and her sons in their one-room apartment in Paris.

She typed some of her account of her life in Russia in snatched moments, and added to these in later life. The manuscript f The Russian Countess was left to her youngest son and daughter-in-law after her death in 1965, who lovingly deciphered the handwritten notes, edited the text and unearthed photographs to ensure that her wish – that her memoirs might one day be published – be fulfilled.