Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea reveals the eye for truth and optimistic spirit of an extroadinary Russian celebrity.
This remarkable memoir of a journey from Moscow to Ukraine to the Black Sea and beyond – undertaken in 1918 and 1919, not long after the overthrow of the last tsar – begins with a plain-spoken admonition. There are no famous figures to be found in these pages, the author says; no political lines will be drawn. Readers “will find only a simple and truthful account of the author’s involuntary journey across the entire expanse of Russia – a …read more
Source: New Statesman
