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The Commissioner's Daughter: The Story of Elizabeth Proby and Admiral Chichagov
 
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The Commissioner's Daughter: The Story of Elizabeth Proby and Admiral Chichagov (Hardcover)

by Joanna Woods (Author)
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When Elizabeth Proby, the daughter of the Commissioner of the Chatham Dockyard, married the brilliant young Russian admiral Pavel Chichagov, she exchnged the orderly world of Jane Austen for the epic stage of Tolstoy's "War and Peace". This is the story of Elizabeth's upbringing in Chatham, her subsequent life in the fashionable society of St Petersburg in the opening years of the 19th century and her husband's extraordinary career after her early death at the age of 36. The marriage of Elizabeth and Pavel Chichagov is a love story that touches on some of the most dramatic events in Russian history, starting with the assassination of Emperor Paul I and culminating in the Retreat from Moscow. The account of her husband's meteoric rise to become head of the Russian Navy under Emperor Alexander I, his complex personality and his lasting passion for his English wife illuminate a long-neglected historical figure.

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