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Le Général Dourakine

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Description: When General Dourakine returns to Russia, he finds his niece, Mme. Dabrovine, living at his estate, with a plot to steal her uncle's fortune.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1872.
Call number: 645052
Creator: Ségur, Sophie (1799-1874)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Ann E. Hardham, John C. Hardham and Virginia B. Hardham, January 2012. From the library of Elizabeth von Arnim, later Countess Russell (1866-1941).
Dimensions: 18 cm.

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