![]() Obsessed with nobility, Guido did his best to seem like a genuine aristocrat, even collecting objects that belonged to noble families and making up a list of ancestors to put any suspicions about his claim to a barony to rest. Guido was Jewish, but he told everyone that he was both Christian and a Viennese baron. ![]() Her husband, Guido Volkbein (senior), died six months earlier of a fever, so the baby is an orphan. Immediately after naming her newborn, Hedvig dies. ![]() The book opens in 1880 when Hedvig Volkbein delivers her only child-a son named Felix. ![]()
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