Paris has always been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than during the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. It was one of history's most remarkable cultural shifts, and here Helen Rappaport traces the fates of artists like Igor Stravinsky and Marc Chagall, but also political activists, double agents, and impoverished aristocrats.