Following the abdication of the last tsar of Russia and the outbreak of the Russian revolution in 1917, Baronness Sophie Buxhoeveden, a longtime lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra, found her world turned upside down as she suddenly had no idea what might be in store in her future. "Left Behind" is another of her recollections of the last years of the Romanovs' lives, and her own personal memoir of the uncertain and fearful live she spent in Siberia from 1917-1919.

"Danger and hardship and the fact of having led a real working life with all that this entails have made me richer by giving me a fuller understanding of my fellows and by helping me to appreciate the point of view of other classes of society. If I have seen humanity at its worst-cruelty, hatred, and murder all surging in a chaos of untrammelled passion - I have also seen it at its best-kindness, unselfishness, and real charity.
This I will always bear in mind when I remember my Siberian wanderings and my last year in my own country."

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