Wanderers of War. Memoirs of Writers' Children, 1941–1944

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Wanderers of War. Memoirs of Writers' Children, 1941–1944

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Natalya Gromova is a writer, playwright, author of books about the literary life of the twenties and thirties, war and post-war years: “Knot. Poets. Friendships and breaks”, “Disintegration. The fate of the Soviet critic. , "The evacuation is underway..." All Gromova's books are based on extensive archival materials and stories of real people - witnesses of the time.
"Wanderers of War" is a collection of memoirs of teenagers of the forties - the children of writers - from the first days of the war, found themselves in the evacuation in the boarding school of the Litfond in Chistopol. They will starve, freeze and dream of returning to Moscow (they thought they would return before winter, but they stayed for three years!), Experience the death of their older brothers and parents, run away to the front ... But it was also the time of the first love, the beginning of friendship, which, like Pushkin, Lyceum, preserved for life. The book is unique in that the authors recall the childish perception of life on the edge of a common disaster. Each story is a separate story. Among others - the fate of three dead youths: Georgy Efron, the son of Marina Tsvetaeva, Nikita Shklovsky, Vsevolod Bagritsky; stories about a meeting with Boris Pasternak, about how twelve-year-old children caught deserters, or how they arranged a holiday with a real Christmas tree for the new year 1942! The book is illustrated with unique family photographs and has an extended index of names.

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Publication language: Russian

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