A few years ago Sofka Zinovieff became fascinated by the life of her grandmother and namesake, Sofka Dolgorouky, who was born into a noble family in imperial Russia exactly a century ago.
Sofka had known her grandmother when she was already an old woman and, although she knew something of her colourful life, she was to […]
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