Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France by Tatyana Bakhmetyeva

Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France

Tatyana Bakhmetyeva

420 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history challenging informative medium-paced

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Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian salon. A Russian migr , Svechina moved to France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman C...

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