Julia Namier

Julia, Lady Namier (1893-1977), born Iulia Michaelovna Kazarina in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was a Russian writer and Soviet emigrant to Britain who endured exile in a concentration camp before being ransomed and arriving in the UK in 1934. St. Seraphim of Sarov, her autobiography The Woman Who Could Not Die (1938), and Creative Suffering (1940), as well as a biography of her second husband, the historian Lewis Namier (1971), for which she won the James Tait Black Award.