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
Ninety-six 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 Napoleon’s 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 Eugenie Fraser, 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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