Memoirs of a Russian Princess [Katoumbah Pasha]

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Memoirs of a Russian Princess

Katoumbah Pasha

Grove Press, NY 1967. First Grove Press edition, first printing hardcover with intact dust jacket. In excellent shape. Some slight soiling to the corners of the dust jacket and slight yellowing, but miraculously intact given the age.

A deeply strange, anonymously authored faux-memoir of a Pre-revolution Russian heiress from 1890, here republished by Grove Press.

From the publisher:

"Here--captured by the pen of the beautiful Vavara Softa--is court life in Imperial Russia at its most glorious, and at its lowest; while the serfs suffered untold cruelties, the aristocracy gave itself over to unbridled sexual pleasures. In this setting, Memoirs of a Russian Princess presents the touching, yet brutal, self-portrait of the Princess herself--her debaucheries, her tender love for the mechanical statue Belphegor, her tragic end as the mistress of Emperor Paul and the wife of Count Tarrasoff."

Hold up - a mechanical statue named Belphegor?  You'll need to buy this to know more. This one is more narrative than many other pulps in this update, but makes up for it with some truly bizarre scenarios.