Having survived the Nazis, Missie ends the diaries as she flees from Vienna, where she has been working as a nurse, before the advancing Red Army. Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grows us to be strong-minded, committed and courageous woman as she daily displays uncommon bravery in the face of the Gestapo and the detestable Dr Six of the SS. Born of aristocratic Russian parents, Vassiltchikov was 24 when. Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945, is an amazing WWII diary of an migr Russian princess who was secretary to Adam von Trott, mastermind of the unsuccessful 20th of. But her diary does describe her departure from Lithuania.
Her family left Russia in 1919 the circumstances of their departure would make another book and she was brought up in Germany, France and Lithuania. Through Adam Von Trott, for whom she worked in the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry, she became involved in the Resistance and the diaries vividly describe her part in the drama of July 1944 and its appalling aftermath. Marie Missie Vassiltchikov, born in 1917, is a child of Prince and Princess Illarion Vassilchikov. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941 - picnics, house-parties, dinners at the Eden.īefore long, however, Missie became sickened by the brutal and repressive nature of Nazi rule which overshadowed every aspect of her life. Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian émigrée caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. `A brilliant record of wartime Berlin as well as the haunting day-by-day life of a beautiful woman of almost unbelievable courage' Daily Mail
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