biography
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Gerhardie, William Alexander
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pronunciation:
[gairhah(r)dee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1977)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born of English parents in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He was educated in St Petersburg, served in the British embassy in Petrograd (1917–18), and later with the military mission in Siberia, before going to Worcester College, Oxford. He is best-remembered for his novel The Polyglots (1925). Other works include his autobiography Memoirs of a Polyglot (1931), a biographical history of The Romanoffs (1940), and God's Fifth Column, a Biography of the Age (1890–1940), edited, after his death, in 1981. |
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