A handful of people

French writer and actress Anna Vyazemski (1947-2017), granddaughter Francois Moriak, in the novel “A handful of people "turned to the history of the Russian branch of her family.
The book takes place in the Russian landowner estate in 1916-1917. The heroes of the novel find themselves in the thick of revolutionary events that bring destruction and death and force them to leave their own country.
Anna Vyazemski (1947-2017) - French actress and writer, granddaughter of Francois Moriak.

... I would never have learned anything about them, about a handful of people abandoned with many and many others in the whirlpool of history - about my family. ... both places and people exist while someone thinks about them. Some particle of their former ones still tremble with life, and this makes them mysteriously close to me.
Anna Vyazemski