I. Remmick-Hubert's History Books
Russian History
Subject
Name of Book
Author
Comments
Year Published In English
Personal Notes
See Romanovs: Alexander I
BESSARABIA
BESSARABIA
by Charles Upson Clark
Three hundred and sixteen pages of the history of the area known as Bessarabia through the eyes of Charles Upson Clark, who ended his preface with his name and " Massawippi Summer School, North Hatley, Quebec".
Clark describes the lay of the land, the early people who roamed the area to the various people who lived in this area in modern times. He tells us about what they grew and produced. He tells us their politics. However, he does not go into the German-Russians in any detail. He does go into detail about the Russification of Bessarabia and it's union with Rumania..... There is the Russian Revolution of 1917.... Creation of the Republic and it's collapse. Came under a new Regime and was then incorporated into Rumania, again. Communists took a firm foot hold and the books ends in the year 1927 as Bessarabia becomes a part of Moldavian Soviet Republic......
There were several German-Russians names I did recognize in some of the pages. They were:
Almendingher [sic] [Almendinger] pps 155, 213
p. 115: [no find?]
p. 213: #29 Philipp [sic] NOTE: This was the signature on the document explained on previous pages which explains it there was a protest passed on Oct 12, 1919 by some forty members of the Kishineff Bar.....
Finkel p. 259
p. 259: "In April 1926, a certain Illie Samsonoff was captured entering Bender from the Ukraine, after a revolver fight.....In the same month, after a session of ten weeks, the military county of the Third Army Corps handed in its verdict in the case of the 63 Communists.... Five Communists --Abraham Finkel, Bernard Zuckermann, Willy Gesler, Giuseppe Sbratz and Michael Iosif--were condemned to five years' imprisonment, and others to less terms; 22 were acquitted."
Gesler p. 259
p. 259: "In April 1926, a certain Illie Samsonoff was captured entering Bender from the Ukraine, after a revolver fight.....In the same month, after a session of ten weeks, the military county of the Third Army Corps handed in its verdict in the case of the 63 Communists.... Five Communists --Abraham Finkel, Bernard Zuckermann, Willy Gesler, Giuseppe Sbratz and Michael Iosif--were condemned to five years' imprisonment, and others to less terms; 22 were acquitted."
Hinckley p. 260
"I note exactly the same thing in the report, in the Bucharest Universal of April 23, 1926, of the trip of Mr. R. B. Hinckley, of our Legation, along the river...."
Reidel p. 12
p.12: "...the Reidel Co. manufactures tartaric acid at Kishineff. There was an excellent exhibition of these wine-growers in the Kishineff Exposition of 1925."
Schmidt pps. 150, 205 f., 263, 279, 308 f.
p. 150: Note: Clark was talking about the organization of the Bessarabian Diet of 21 Nov 1917: "...official representative of the Soviet of St. Petersburg and the Provisional Russian government, not yet formally replaced; of Mayor A. C. Schmidt of Kishineff, and of P. Sinadino, former Deputy in the Duma.."
p. 205: "...blame of hard times was laid upon the Moldanvian leaders of the Diet, and the Roumanians. The Mayor of Kishineff, A. C. Schmidt, led the malcontents; he was replaced, as was the Communal Council.... 1917...."
p. 263 [no find]
p. 308 gives. references of Schmidt: "Summary of Events in Bessarabia (1917-1918). Paris, Lahure, 1919; 15 pp. Brief anti-Roumanian summary of the career of the Provincial Dit, etc."
Trenck p. 278
Note: Baron Frederick von der Trenck
"pps 277-8: In 1739, Gen. Muennich carried back with him 100,000 Roumanian peasants, according to the memoirs of Trenck, his companion; and in 1792, another great immigration took place. As a results, it is reckoned that there are probably half a million Roumanian peasants in Russia east of the Dniester."
Zuckermann p. 259
p. 259: "In April 1926, a certain Illie Samsonoff was captured entering Bender from the Ukraine, after a revolver fight.....In the same month, after a session of ten weeks, the military county of the Third Army Corps handed in its verdict in the case of the 63 Communists.... Five Communists --Abraham Finkel, Bernard Zuckermann, Willy Gesler, Giuseppe Sbratz and Michael Iosif--were condemned to five years' imprisonment, and others to less terms; 22 were acquitted."
NOTE: See copy of this book on the University of Washington website. http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/toc_pag.shtml
1927
Catherine I
Tsar's Woman
Pamela Hill
The story [historical novel] of the second wife of Peter The Great.I knew nothing about her or how she tied into the Romanov tapestry. children were Anne b. 1708 and Elizabeth b. 1709, who ruled Russia and gave her throne to her sister's, Anne's, son, Peter III who married the woman who became Catherine II "the Great"
1977
Catherine II "The Great":
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Catherine The Great
Henri Troyat
Has a Great deal of information Good Index.
1980 trans from 1977
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The Lovers of Catherine the Great
Vsevolod A. Nikolaev & Albert Parry
Based on Russian , French and German memoirs, correspondence and diplomatic reports. Interesting.
1982
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Catherine the Great
Miriam Kochan
History in brief
1976
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Comedy of Catherine the Great
Francis Gribble
1912
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Treasures of Imperial Russia, Catherine the Great from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Presented by Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles [CA USA]
A picture book of articles shown during a tour of Catherine the Great's Personal and historical influences not only of Russia, Also her family and the world. Great interest for historians.
1990
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Courtships of Catherine the Great
Philip W. Sergeant,
old with no date
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Private Life of Catherine the Great
Princess Lucien Murat
1928
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Catherine Empress of All the Russians
Vincent Cronin
1978
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Elizabeth and Catherine
Robert Colighlan
Excellent Ref. Book.excellent "Cast of Characters" section which gives an excellent brief of people who were part Catherine II's life. Talks a little more about The Hermitage and the art work she had collected
1974
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Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Carolly Erickson
Flawed in her efforts of trying to find flaws of Catherine II "the Great". Added nothing new to other books already written. However, if you've not read anything about her it would be a good read.
1994
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Suggested by others:
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Catherine the Great
Joan Haslip
Crimea [Krim]
Tales of Sevastopol
Leo Tolstoy
Has interesting sketches of the Crimean war. Page 29: "Six months have elapsed since then the first cannon ball went shrieking from Sevastopol bastions and raked up the earth in the enemy positions..." First Edition ____
1952
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Durova, Nadezhda
The Cavalry Maiden
Durova Nadezhda Translated by Mary Feleming Zirin
A woman who served in the Tsar's Army under the guise of a male for almost ten years. She met Tsar Alexander I in 1807 who granted her a commission. A more than a simple journal of a woman and of a time ortant to the German-s who migrated into Russia. She was in Tarnopol in 1809-1815
Personal interest: Gen. Alexander [Aleksandr] Neidhardt who was Pr. Commander Buxhoewden's adjutant. Buxhoewden was in charge of rebuilding of the western army after the Prussian campaign in 1807.
Elizabeth, Tsarina of Russia
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Elizabeth and Catherine
Robert Colighlan
Excellent Ref. Book.excellent "Cast of Characters" section which gives an excellent brief of people who were part Catherine II's life. Talks a little more about The Hermitage and the art work she had collected
1974
Photograph Books of Russia
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Before the Revolution
Kyril FitzLyon and Tatiana Browing
300 photographs
Personal interest: Page 88 is the 1890 photo of Karl von Meck's estate at Brailov / Bessarabia. Here, his widow, became patron of Tschalkovsky. Show s a sugar [beet ] factory
1978
Rasputin
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Rasputin, The Man Behind The Myth
Maria Rasputin and Pattie Barham
Memoir of Maria Rasputin and a very good read of how a daughter saw her famous father, who was greatly hated by most, while at the same time was loved and cherished by the royal family of Russia.... Only Rasputin was able to stir up the emotions in the Tsarovich to halt the bleeding caused by hemophilia.... Has an index.
1977
ROMANOVS, Russian Royal Family
General Information
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The Shadow of the Winter Palace
Edward Crankshaw
1825 to 1917 "RUSSIA'S DRIFT TO REVOLUTION" Printed on the dust cover.
Chronological Table "Inended as a Guide to the Period"
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The Romanovs
W. Bruce Lincoln
Eight hundred and fifty-two pages of information.
1981
Individual Persons - Romanov's continued........
Alexander I
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Alexander I of Russia
Leonid I. Strakhovsky
Good Ref. book. Has a lenghty bibliography section. First Edition
1947
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Alexander of Russia
Henri Troyat
Translated by Joan Pinkham. Excellent ref. book. Excellent Chronology of Alexander 1777 to 1826. 1980 First Edition France
1982 English Ed.
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Alexander I, Tsar of War and Peace
Alan Palmer
Good read.First Edition
1974
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Tsar Alexamder I
Allen McConnell
Interesting facts. A study to understand the person, his fears and his politics.
1970
Alexander II
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The Modernization of Russia
W. E. Mosse
About a Tzar trying to pull his people into the 19th century. First Edition 1958
1973
Alexander II's Morgantic Wife (2)
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Katie, Wife Before God
Alexandre Tarsaidze
Catherine Dolgorukov, also known as Princess Yourievsky, was b. ca. 1847 and became lover than second wife of Tsar Alexander II. An interesting read about the "other families" [those outside the legitimate royal family]. First Edition.
1970
Catherine I
See Catherine I above
Catherine II
See Catherine II "the Great
Elizabeth, Tsarina of Russia
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Elizabeth and Catherine
Robert Colighlan
Excellent Ref. Book.excellent "Cast of Characters" section which gives an excellent brief of people who were part Catherine II's life. Talks a little more about The Hermitage and the art work she had collected
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia
Hugo Mager
Story about the sister of Alexandra, the wife of Nicholas II, who had married Grand Duke Serge, the brother of Alexander III, who was Nicholas II's father. No new information is given, however, it helps the reader see Elizabeth as her own person with her own personal tragedies..
1998
Ivan, Tsar of Russia
Ivan, the Terrible
Henri Troyat
A Tsar who lived in hard times and given the nickname "the Terrible". First Edition.& Berkeley Edition 1986
1984
Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia
Nicholas I And The Offical Nationality In Russia , 1825-1855
Nicholas Riasanovsky
"...theory that guided state policy during the reign of Nicholas I..." is printed on the back cover of this fourth edition by UC Press
1969
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
Best ref. book which is, also, a very good read about the royal family. Also, very accurate in detail and temperament. To add to has an excellent epilogue.
1967
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The Romanovs, The Final Chapter
Robert K. Massie
Talks about the bones found shallow grave Ekaterinburg, Siberia in 1991 and what it all means to Russia and the Romanovs who are still alive and claimants in their own right.
1995
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The Romanov Family Album
Introduction by Robert Massie and
Picture and descriptions by Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey
Picture Book of Romanov Family . The last being a copy of the prayer card painted by Alexandra with the verse from Psalm 103:8-9
1982
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Nicholas II, The Last Tsars
Marc Ferro
His intention was to show Nicholas II as a human being with human flaws placed into a position he did not want but his fate and the times thrust upon him the duties and responsibilities of the Tsar of all the Russias. His last chapter discuss Anna Anderson, the person who claimed to be Anastasia, the daughter of Nicholas II, and other rumors....
1993
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The Private World of the Last Tsar, in the Photographs and Notes of General Count Alexander Grabbe
E and Beatrice Grabbe
Marvelous pictures!
1984
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A Lifelong Passion, Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story
Complied by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko
Collection of the private correspondence of Nicholas II and Alexandra. Last entry is Alexandra's entry in her diary the 3/16 July 1918.
1997
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Nicholas II, Twilight of the Empire
Dominic Lieven
"Nicholas II was not stupid. Nor was he nearly as weak as is commonly thought." A quote from the dust cover which reveals a refreshing view of the Tsar and the political difficulties surrounding him, his country and Europe. Plus the "near miss of becoming a "constitutional monarch".
1993
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The Hunt For The Czar
Guy Richards
For Ref. of the pro and cons disapearance, execution and evidence of Nicholas II his family's deaths in ekaterinburg in 1918
1970
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The File on the Tsar
Antony Summers and Tom Mangold
Collected facts, rumors and evidence of what happen to Nicholas II on the night of the 16/17 July 1918. Talk about and other claimants. Excellent source of notes of facts and rumors.
1976
Personal interest: Had communication with one of the authors about the fate of Nicholas II and family.
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Imperial Tragedy, Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars
Noble Frankland
Goes into detail of the last 16 months of Nicholas II and his family.
1961
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The Last Tsar
Edvard Radzinsky
A Russian who appears to have access to records that have since have been closed to "outsiders". Seems be to involved with those trying to discover the truth of the facts surrounding the deaths of Nicholas II and his family. Interviews are presented. Also, deals with the bones found in 1991 near Ekaterinburg, Siberia.
1992
Personal Note: I am always leary of people with too many answers about a subject , like this one, because so much has been hidden, destroyed and lost for so many reasons then and even, now, after all these years..
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A Life Long Passion
Andrei Maylunas & Sergei Mironenko
Excerpts taken from the diaries of Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. Very well organized work and great for references of what was occurring between them, their families and events from 1881 to 1918. Interspersed are other voices from memoirs and other diaries. One does not need to be well read on their lives to understand these passages, however, those who are well versed can finally see the actual printed word that is so often referred in many books about the man and woman who ruled Russia and it's Empire.
1996
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The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter Kurth
Introduction by Edvard Radzinsky. Pictures by Peter Christopher. A large picture book with the history of the Royal Family in brief. Many pictures not seen before are part of this interesting collection.
1995
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The House of Special Purpose, Intimate Portrait of last Days of the Russian Imperial Family
J. C. Trewin
Complied from the Papers of their English Tutor Charles Sydney Gibbes
1975
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The Quest for Anastasia
John Klier & Helen Mingay
The reason given for writing another book about Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, was to close the chapter on her life and to present evidence that the daughter of Nicholas II's bones were found in the shallow grave in Siberia. In my opinion, there was no new evidence within it's 235 pages and the data was merely evidence which other books haven't already labored.
1995
Peter I "The Great"
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Peter the Great, His Life and World
Robert Massie
Excellent Ref. Book. Massie does his homework and makes reading history a pleasure.
1980
Schmemann
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Echoes Of A Native Land
Serge Schmemann
Serge was born in France to a Russian emigres, migr. to the USA in 1951, was raised here, married, had three children then returned to the estate and village which his mother's family had owned, ruled and had drawn stories which the author remembered and sought to find which was truth, tales and legend. His writing abilities show from time to time why he has won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. The story spans three centuries and carried a person from the very old, through the terror of Bolsheviks, communism and, now, after the Berlin wall has fallen. Here are a few lines: "Lev Vasilevich told me that the manor house had burned down in 1923, and all that remained of the old estate was a gutted bell tower, a crumbling stable, and the former parish school." "But on my first visit, that was not what I wanted to know. I wanted to see beauty and romance, to walk where my ancestors had walked, to catch the echoes of a native land." His last sentence in his last chapter is: "I had claimed my rightful place on this Sergiyevskoye soil, I thought, and it did not require a Soviet or a Russian deed."
1997
Personal notes: In 1841 when the Sergiyevskoye estate was sold it held 600 "souls", was 3,084 desiatins (8,327 Acres) of land, held eight villages which were Goryainovov, Kashurki, Polivanova, Pyshkovo, Shakhovo, Salfierovo, Dmitrovka and Zinovo. The area was been called Goryainovov, then Karovo then Sergiyevskoy and in 1996 is known as Koltsovo. Lies about 90 miles south of Moscow near the city of Kaluga. A Colonel Osorgin bought the estate which had been owned by Major General Kar who had owned it since 1775... It should be noted that the estate Kar had purchased and I quote: ".. stables with horses of 'German-Russian breeds'."
Shoumatoff / Shumacher / Schumacker
Russian Blood
Alex Shoumatoff
[Shumacher]
Alex Shoumatoff is a des. of Daniel S[c]humacher, a Baltic German-Russian.
Tolstoys, The
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The Tolstoys, Twenty-Four Generations of Russian History, 1353-1983
. Nikolai Tolstoy.
The title speaks for itself. There is a family chart on the inside of the book cover of the Tolstoy lineage.
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Tolstoy
. Henri Troyat
. About Leo Tolstoy with an excellent index. There are a number of German families mentioned: Behr [Sonya, nee Behr, Tolstoy, wife of Leo Tolstoy, Baumann, Bernheim, Englehardt, Frey, Froebel, Meyer, Offenbach, Reuss, Riehl, Rigner, Rudolph, Schmidt, Scheuffer, UlbachÉ.Mentions Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, the Behr's estate which was eight miles from Moscow
1965
Tolstoy Sonya
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Sonya, The Life of Countess Tolstoy.
. Anne Edwards.
I liked the view of Leo Tolstoy from the view of his wife, Sonya, through the author. Note Brother of Sonya was Alexander Andreevich Behrs who became the Vice-Governor of Orel. Her father was Dr. Andrey Yevstafyevich Behrs, a German-Russian, who treated the Royal Romanov Family. Sonya was b. in 1844.
Russia, People and It's Land [General Topics]
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Land of Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia
Extraordinary gift of information for those who wish to seek knowledge of times before the 1918 Revolution. First Edition
1980
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The Family In Imperial Russia, New Lines of Historical Research
Edited by David L. Ransel
. . Russian family relationships of the nobility and the peasant. Interesting section on life reflected in lullabies. Oct. 1976
Russian History - General by Dates
1812
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Burning of Moscow 1812, The
Daria Olivier
Napoleon entered Moscow 15 Sept 1812. This book gives insight to the historical characters and why Emperor Alexander I's General Kutuxov gave the order leave Moscow . It tells about Gov. Count Rostopchin role in burning Moscow as "General Winter" approached. This caused Napoleon to leave Moscow and caused his defeat and lost of many good soldiers.....
Personal note: This historic event caused my ancestors, Georg Hein, age five, and his mother , Elizabeth, nee von Zappolya, Hein, to leave Moscow. He often told stories about this event....
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Campaign of 1812 In Russia, The
General Carl von Clausewitz
Clausseweitz four major campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars: Jena in 1806; 1812 Campaign, Wars of Liberation of 1813-14 and Waterloo in 1815. Born in 1780 seved with the Prussian Army from the age of twelve and served under Gerhard von Scharnhorst.... May 1812 he arrived at Czar Alexander I's headquarters and "from this poiint the book speaks for itself". No index which is a shame since there is accurate and dated material.... Added to this is 14 maps: # 6. Battle of Borodino....
1995
Russian Revolution & Civil War 1917-1925
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The Sealed Train.
Michael Pearson.
Shows Lenin's arrival to head the Revolution of 1917. Following him was a train full of gold which was supplied by the Germans in hopes a revolution would weaken Russia and they'd be able march into Russia and rule.
1975
WWI
[The Gerat War]
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Gatchina Days . Reminiscences of A Russian Pilot.
Alexander Riaboff
. Alexander Riaboff. A graduate from the Odessa Advanced Fighter School in 1917. The school was at Lustdorf. Great pictures of the airplanes flown at the end of WWI and into the Revolution. Nov. of 1919 he joined the White Army. He fled Russia to Harbin then later migrated to Seattle, WA and then San Francisco, CA. He died in 1984. 1896.
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The Lost Children
Jane Swan
This is one of the curious little unknown books which deals with a true story about a group of children, 800 in number, who were between the ages of 3 and fifteen years old, who were sent south to live in more healthy conditions in May of 1918 since Petrograd was suffering from the revolution and great hunger occurred from the famine. With these children were a number of teachers. They became caught between the White and Red Armies. Their adventures turned into a nightmare.... The American Red Cross became their guardian. Due to political turmoil, these children continued to flee across the expanse of Siberia. When the war was over, the only way to transport these children back to Petrograd was by a Japanese ship that was headed first to San Francisco, Panama Canal and New York then back across the Atlantic to Finland and finally Petrograd in 1921.
1989
Personal note: Among these children were German-Russians. The first one mention was Vera Schmith p. 3 who told her parents, "Mama! Papa!," she shouted. "This afternoon my geography teacher asked our class if any of us would like to go to the Ural Mountains for the summer! I was the first to raise my had. Can I go? Can I? Please? Please?"
On the 7th of July 1918 this band of youth entered Ekaterinburg, Siberia where the Tsar and his family were held captive in the Impatiev House and stood next to it, only to be told by a soldier waving his rifle, "Get out! Get out, you brats!" They left and took a tour of the local museum.... p. 7.
Russian Novels
Modern Times
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Last of the Breed
Louis L'Amour
USA Air force Major Joseph Maktozi, who is part American Indian, was flying an experimental aircradft which is forced down over the Bering sea by the USSR. The adventure shows how he survived when used the ancient skills he had learned as a boy from his Sioux warrior ancestors. To add to the drama is a GRU officer, who'career depends upon the capture of the American pilot ...The GRU officer uses a Yakut native to track the American and they begin their trek which traces the path taken so long ago by American's ancestors who had migrated from Sibera and crossed the Bering Strait to what is known, now, as Northeran America
1986
Personal notes: Louis L'Amour grew up in and around Streeter, ND where my father grew up... The Sioux use to dress in their best costumes and dance for the trains that stopped and they were often reward with money.... I believe his father was French but I'm not sure his mother's background.....
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Russka, The Novel of Russia
Edward Rutherfurd
Starts in A.D. 180 in the Forest and Steppe and works it way through the centuries in The First Russka which the author placed near Kiev and then Second Russka near Moscow. Time ends 1845 in August. Russian families mentioned: Bobrov, Sukvorin, Romanov, Ivanov, Karpenko, Popov and others. His fiction family begin with Lebed and his des. who touch the non-fictional families mentioned. A good read but a long one. 1991
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Year of December, The
Lucy Gores
Many of the characters are "culled from history" of the year 1825: Pushchin, Prince Pyotr, Prince Odoevski. The main fictional character is an English woman, step sister to Mary Shelley, who has fled from an affair with Lord Byron to Moscow. She had her new lover, Prince Grisha Volynski are caught up in politics and passions of the Russian Revoutlion 25, which is known, also, as the Decembrist Uprising.
Good read for a cold December day.
1974
