Author: Various
Title: National Defense Meeting. Princess Cantacuzene Speransky, Guest Speaker
Description: Hanover, PA, American Legion, 1933. Pamphlet, dated Friday, March 3, 1933; 9 x 6 1/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with a portrait; very light wear and age-toning; in very good to near fine condition. A program for a national defence meeting, it listed the activities for the evening, including a concert, opening remarks, etc. and featured Princess Cantacuzene Speransky as the meeting's guest speaker. Julia Dent Cantacuzene Speransky-Grant (1876 - 1975) was an author, historian, wife of Russian General Prince Mikhail Cantacuzene, and grandchild of President Ulysses S. Grant. She would write several first-person accounts of the Russian reality before and during the Revolution, as well as numerous articles for the New York Times, Saturday Evening Post, and others. Very good .

Keywords: Russian-Americana


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