The Little Russian Servant

by Henry Gréville

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118 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 4, 2009

About the author

Henry Gréville was the pen name for Mrs. Alice Durand (Alice Marie Céleste Fleury Durand), born Fleury, was a French writer.

The daughter of a professor, she accompanied her father to St. Petersburg, studied languages and science and married Émile Durand, a French law professor at Petersburg, with whom she returned to France in 1872.

Gréville had already published novels in St. Petersburg journals: A travers des champs and Sonia, and continued her production in France, first with the novels Dosia (1876) and L'Expiation de Savéli (1876), depicting Russian society. Dosia was awarded the Montbon prize and saw many editions. Her books were translated in many European languages.