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Non-Russian speakers have had to wait twenty years for Sergei Golitsyn's autobiography to appear in English. When it came out in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union in 1990 it had already languished for thirty years unpublished in a deep drawer. The author prepared it for publication, but died before it was printed. In Russia it was a seminal work, an essential tool in the demolition of the edifice built by Lenin and Stalin. Golitsyn committed a crime at the instant of his conception: he was closely related to the doomed royal family of the last tsar. A deeply humble, honest, religious man, his whole life he fought to extricate himself from his origins - not by denouncing...