The House by the Dvina (1990). The return of Eugenie Fraser to her native Archangel after 70 years
Directed by Ian Taylor. 2002 obituary of Eugenie Fraser in The Times: Eugenie Fraser Refugee from Revolutionary Russia who formed a living link back to the days of Napoleon Ninetysix years ago, a baby girl, half Scottish, half Russian, wrapped in furs against the bitter cold of an Archangel winter, was taken by sledge across the River Dvina to the house of a very old lady. Nanny Shalovchika was 105 and had lived long enough to remember seeing Napoleons troops fleeing down the roads of Smolensk and to have had a son killed in the Crimean War. The baby, christened Yevgheniya Ghermanovna Scholts, was placed on her knee, and the nanny smiled proudly. I am content, she said. I have now nursed four generations. The child who sat on that knee and years later recalled and wrote about her link with history was herself a truly remarkable woman. The life of EugenieFraser, as she became, reads like something out of a novel by Turgenev. When, at the age of 80, she published her story, The Hous
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