The memoirs of Elena Nikolaevna of the Berkovo historian, bibliographer, daughter of the philosopher N.A. Seatsky, cover three decades. Life on the “fragment of the Universe”, in the Russian Harbin of the 1920s-first half of the 1930s, the center of the Far Eastern Emigrant Diaspora. The terrible Moscow 1937, when hundreds of Harbin families who returned to their homeland after the sale of the CRC went under a knife of repressions. The provincial Ukrainian Akhtyrka and tenth graders, the guys of that generation that folded its heads on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, heroically protecting the country. And again, Moscow of the 1940s: University, Eastfaces, Trud-Front, Communication with Boris Pasternak, Sergey Durylin, Alexei Krusheni. Scriabin Museum and Museum Brotherhood, those boys and girls whose images were inspired by Pasternak, working on the novel “Doctor Zhivago”.
The book “Fate of Crushing” is a kind of novel of education, the history of growth and ripening of the young soul in a turning point, tragic time. This is a reflection over the era and above, family chronicle and history …
Author
Berkovskaya Elena Nikolaevna
Editor
Gacheva Anastasia Georgievna
Publisher
Return, 2008
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.