The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward ruth mclennan Nadezhda Teffi

Nadezhda Teffi

After describing accounts of pre-perestroika persecution

Its impressive scope and lasting insights have made it a foundational text in Russian studies

and expressive prose

and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years

The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward ruth mclennan Nadezhda TeffiShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk taking' The Times A killer virus an all powerful Empress an encounter cloaked in secrecy the astonishing true story. Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed untold millions. Back in the eighteenth century, as epidemics swept Europe, the first rumours emerged of an