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Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina was born in 1893, and was brought up in Street St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Her first husband, Nicolai de Beausobre, a Russian diplomat, died of communist persecution in the 1930s, and Iulia herself was exiled to a concentration camp. She was ransomed by her former governess, a British woman, and migrated to Britain. She left Russia in 1934.
In Britain she published an autobiography, and reflections on.
She went on to publish a translation of, and a life of Street Seraphim of Sarov, Flame in the Snow (1945), based on popular sources rather than the official hagiography. She died in 1977.
