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Helen Rappaport | Helen Rappaport - After studying Russian at Leeds University Helen Rappaport subsequently opted for the acting profession. She appeared in many British TV programmes and in films until the mid-1990s when she gave up acting and embraced her second love – history. She started out contributing to biographical and historical reference works for publishers such as Cassell, Reader’s Digest and Oxford University Press. Between 1999 and 2003 she wrote three books for a leading US reference publisher: Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion, the award-winning An Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers and Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion. Her first trade book is No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (Aurum Press, 2007). She is a fluent Russian speaker and a specialist in Russian history and 19th-century women’s history. In 2005 she was historical consultant and extensively interviewed on a Channel 4 documentary about the Jamaican nurse, Mary Seacole. Since the mid-70s she has become well-known for her numerous collaborations with British playwrights on new versions of Russian plays – notably the entire Chekhov opus. In 2002 she was Russian consultant to the National Theatre’s Tom Stoppard trilogy, The Coast of Utopia. Helen Rappaport is the co-author with William Horwood of Dark Hearts of Chicago, a thriller about journalist Emily Strauss of the New York World, published by Hutchinson 2007.
Her latest book Ekaterinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs was sold to Hutchinson, Random House in May 2007.
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