Julia, Lady Namier (also known as Iulia de Beausobre; Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina) (1893-1977) was a Russian writer. She wrote several works on

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, and a biography of her husband, British historian

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Biography

Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina was born in 1893 and brought up in

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, Russia. Her first husband, Nicolai de Beausobre, a Russian diplomat reportedly persecuted by the Communist authorities, died in the 1930s. Iulia herself was exiled to a concentration camp. She was ransomed by her former governess, a British woman, and migrated to

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. She left Russia in 1934. In Britain, she published an autobiography, ''The Woman Who Could Not Die'' (1938) and reflections on ''Creative Suffering'' (1940). She went on to publish a translation of ''Russian Letters of Direction by Macarius the Elder of Optino'' (1944), and a life of St Seraphim of Sarov, ''Flame in the Snow'' (1945), based on popular sources rather than the official hagiography.''Flame in the Snow''
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, who was knighted five years later, in 1952. After his death in 1960, she wrote his biography, for which she received the

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in 1971. She died in 1977.

Selected works

* ''The Woman Who Could Not Die'' (1938) * ''Creative Suffering'' (1940) * ''Russian Letters of Direction by Macarius the Elder of Optino'' (1944) * ''Flame in the Snow A Russian Legend'' (1945) * ''Lewis Namier: A Biography'' (1971)

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