A light-weight book if ever there was one, both in length (144 pages)and depth. Even though she was the first First Lady of any country to have had a ph.d, she comes across in this book as very opportunistic, seeming to play any part necessary to keep herself out of the poverty she came from. And an awful lot of the book is devoted to frivolous matters, like what a clothes horse she is, or what they eat, and the decorations of their various abodes. She just seems hard and self-serving here. And not a little selfish. There is some description of conditions in Russia at the time, but thrown in as a side line only. And at times the writing was a little disjointed, times and dates being out of synch. A book I could have easily skipped. Perhaps as a foreign journalist stationed in Russia, Jurgens just didn't have access to enough info, but then why bother to write the book at all? There were some interesting pictures.