also worked in the editorial offices of Segodnya (), a Russian-language newspaper in Riga, and was a correspondent for the Berlin-based Rul () and Parisian Poslednie Novosti (). In 1923 she published her memoirs of the revolution and war years as a book. With the Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, Warsher finally left Russia permanently. She gave a farewell public lecture in Riga, on the excavations at Pompeii, before leaving for Berlin in February 1922. There she studied at the University of Berlin under Franz Noack and Gerhart Rodenwalt, two noted scholars of Pompeii. In 1923, she met with Mikhail Rostovtzeff, her former teacher in Saint Petersburg and now fellow white émigré, in Paris. Rostovtzeff encouraged her to move to Italy to pursue her interest in Pompeii. He arranged for her to work with the German Archaeological Institute and the American Academy in Rome, and also introduced her to the lead excavator of Pompeii, . References 1880 births 1960 deaths Archaeologists from Moscow Archaeologists from the Russian Empire Classical archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists Soviet emigrants to Germany