1889-1917. Memories
29.99 €
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1889-1917. Memories
29.99 €
Historian, publicist, and naval officer Dmitry Nikolaevich Fedotov-White's book contains memoirs of his childhood, youth, and early naval service in pre-revolutionary Russia in the early 20th century. The manuscript was written in the United States in the 1940s, but is only now being published for the first time.
Russian readers are familiar with D. N. Fedotov-White's book "The Experience," one of the most vivid and gripping accounts of the Civil War in Russian memoir writing. A brilliant naval officer who graduated from the Naval Corps, he served in the Russian and British navies, participated in the White movement, was captured by the Reds, hid under an assumed name in Soviet Russia, and illegally fled abroad in 1921. In the United States, he established a successful career in a shipping company and became an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
In these memoirs, written in the final years of his life, the author aims to introduce American readers to the cultural foundations hidden beneath the veneer of the new Soviet state, a foundation of which even professional researchers in the West had a very limited understanding. The result of this work is a colorful picture of Russian urban life, described through the eyes of an eyewitness to the key events of the first decades of the 20th century. The publication of D. N. Fedotov-White's memoirs is valuable in that it allows readers to grasp a realistic picture of the times and the image of an extraordinary man, whose life story, in its captivating intensity and dramatic plot twists, rivals that of a work of fiction.
Russian readers are familiar with D. N. Fedotov-White's book "The Experience," one of the most vivid and gripping accounts of the Civil War in Russian memoir writing. A brilliant naval officer who graduated from the Naval Corps, he served in the Russian and British navies, participated in the White movement, was captured by the Reds, hid under an assumed name in Soviet Russia, and illegally fled abroad in 1921. In the United States, he established a successful career in a shipping company and became an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
In these memoirs, written in the final years of his life, the author aims to introduce American readers to the cultural foundations hidden beneath the veneer of the new Soviet state, a foundation of which even professional researchers in the West had a very limited understanding. The result of this work is a colorful picture of Russian urban life, described through the eyes of an eyewitness to the key events of the first decades of the 20th century. The publication of D. N. Fedotov-White's memoirs is valuable in that it allows readers to grasp a realistic picture of the times and the image of an extraordinary man, whose life story, in its captivating intensity and dramatic plot twists, rivals that of a work of fiction.
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