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the greater part comprised of Vincent's superbly atmospheric

and details the frequently brutal swindles practiced in the city's numerous clip joints and the tactics of the era's crime organizations

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"Valse Des Fleurs" 1944 SITWELL, Sacheverell Children's the greater part comprised ofA Day in St. Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868 SITWELL, Sacheverell [151] pp. Faber and Faber 1944 Fourth Impression 7 5 8" x 5" Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter's day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar is giving a ball, and in the run up we are given a glimpse of a lost generation of courtiers, servants, guards, officials and dignitaries later condemned to oblivion by the Russian Revolution. Though slim enough