Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Incidents in the life of Madame Blavatsky

by Alfred Percy Sinnett & Hermann Schmiechen

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French
Read free

Description

Description from Open Library (opens in a new tab)

QUOTING the authoritative statement of her late uncle, General Fadeef, made at my request in 1881, at a time when he was Joint-Secretary of State in the Home Department at St Petersburg, Mme. H. P. Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, to give the name at full length) "is, from her father's side, the daughter of Colonel Peter Hahn, and grand-daughter of General Alexis Hahn von Rottenstern Hahn (a noble family of Mecklenburg, Germany, settled in Russia), and she is, from her mother's side, the daughter of Helene Fadeef, and grand-daughter of Privy Councillor Andrew Fadeef and of the Princess Helene Dolgorouky.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism and Parapsychology and psychical research.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Parapsychology”· via Open Library
    • “Parapsychology”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 0342266020; other editions may be cheaper. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

Open Library reports 23 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Open Library record

1886G. RedwayEnglish—Public

Subjects

5 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

ISBN-13
ISBN-10
LCCN
OCLC
Open Library work
Internet Archive

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 23 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL6911193W
Edition coverage
Representative plus work aggregates
Retrieved