Goodbye Russia

Author : Fiona Maddocks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781639365944

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Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks Pdf

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic “Symphonic Dances.” What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. He had already written the music which, today, has made him one of the most popular composers of all time: the second and third Piano Concertos and two symphonies. The story of his years in exile in America and Switzerland has only been told in passing. Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars—from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Yet the melancholy of leaving his homeland never lifted. Using a wide range of sources, including important newly translated texts, Fiona Maddocks’s immensely readable book conjures impressions of this enigmatic figure, his friends and the world he encountered. It explores his life as an emigré artist and how he clung to an Old Russia which no longer existed. That forging of past and present meets in his Symphonic Dances (1940), his last composition, written on Long Island shortly before his death in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a close-knit circle of exiles. Goodbye Russia is a moving and prismatic look at Rachmaninoff and his iconic final work.

Author : Evan Percival Cameron
Publisher : London : Hodder and Stoughton
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Political refugees
ISBN : UOM:39015063784865

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Goodbye Russia by Evan Percival Cameron Pdf

This book chronicles the H.M. Transport Rio Negro during 1920, evacuating White Russian refugees from Black Sea ports. It is written from the diary of the ship's commander Captain Evan Cameron.

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623655006

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Hullo Russia, Goodbye England by Derek Robinson Pdf

Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous. But there's a catch. The Vulcan has only one role: to make a second strike. To act in retaliation for a Russian nuclear attack. Silk knows that knows that if he ever flies his Vulcan in anger, he'll be flying from a smoking wasteland, a Britain obliterated. But in the mad world of Mutually Assured Destruction, the Vulcan is the last--the only--deterrent. Derek Robinson returns with another rip-roaring, gung-ho R.A.F. adventure, one that exposes and confronts the brinkmanship and saber-rattling of the Cold War Era.

Author : Olga Valcoff
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467086523

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Hello Golden Gate by Olga Valcoff Pdf

Hello Golden Gate is the epic generational saga of a family that was forced to flee their mother country and spent the rest of their lives looking for a place to call home. When author O1ga Valcoff s grandparents left behind everything they cared for while fleeing from the Russian Revolution of 1917, they became part of Asias White Russian community, where a diaspora of stateless refugees found comfort as they tried to rebuild their lives. Two generations later, Olga was born in Japan and moved to Shanghai with her parents, always on the run from war, Communism and political oppression. Hello Golden Gate is a factual record of Russian refugees in the Far East from the early 1920s through World War II and Chinese Communist takeover of China. At the heart of Olgas story is a strong family bond that endured hardships, enjoyed good times and never gave up hope. From illness, imprisonment and wartime destitution to beautiful Japanese festivals and opulent Russian religious holidays. The vignettes in Hello Golden Gate let readers see what life was like in another time and place

Author : Kassi Ydris
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781796067309

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Finding My Voice (For Indiana with Love) by Kassi Ydris Pdf

The book “Finding My Voice (for Indiana with love)” is a book of prayers, poems and songs dedicated to the people of Indiana that helped Mr. Ydris To find his voice in his poems to God and in the process inspire others. The book is inspired by the book of Psalms in the bible and is a total of 151 poems and prayers to inspire others to open their hearts to Christ and God And walk in the Spirit and not the Flesh. This is his seventh book which he hopes will inspire people to find their own voice and help others in the process to make Heaven here on Earth and not Hell.

Author : William Thomas Venner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476648385

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American Polar Bears in Russia by William Thomas Venner Pdf

At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army 339th Infantry--nicknamed the "Polar Bears"--was deployed to northern Russia to prevent Allied supplies stockpiled near the port city of Archangel from falling into the hands of the Bolsheviks. Drawing on firsthand accounts from men in the regiment, their 18-month campaign is narrated from the point of view of the riflemen, NCOs and officers of companies I and M. Each chapter highlights an individual soldier's experience fighting the Red Army and the Arctic winter, a quarter century before the Cold War.

Author : Helen Rappaport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250273116

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After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Pdf

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all that Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation, such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents from both sides plotted espionage and assassination. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon. This is their story.

Author : Richard Hugo,R Hugo
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558171657

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Farewell to Russia by Richard Hugo,R Hugo Pdf

Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1349 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317476962

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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature by Maxim D. Shrayer Pdf

This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown. Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations. The editor of the anthology, Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College, is a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature. The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the author's background, but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal, cultural, and historical circumstances in which the writer worked, and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context. The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture. This handsome two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century, and includes the editor's extensive introduction to the Jewish-Russian literary canon. The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present, and each volume includes a corresponding survey of Jewish-Russian history by John D. Klier of University College, London, as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources.

Author : Elisa Brodinsky Miller
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644693537

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When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home by Elisa Brodinsky Miller Pdf

Shortly after her father’s death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings. Written in Russian and Yiddish, with datelines in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia, the letters detail eight long years (1914-1922) during which Elisa’s father, his five siblings, and their mother spend apart from Elisa’s grandfather who had left for America, believing their separation would be short. Miller, a Russian affairs specialist, learns bit by bit with each translation about the family she knew so little about, and the eight years of history they lived through, enabling her for the first time to connect her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents’ struggles to escape Tsarist Russia, her parents’ hopes for their marriage in America, and her own reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation with dreams—first theirs, now hers.

Author : M. Weidenbenner
Publisher : Random Publishing, LLC
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780989404938

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Scattered Links by M. Weidenbenner Pdf

Grab a copy of this book while it's $0.99. The sale ends April 7, 2018. FIRST-PLACE WINNER in the KINDLE BOOK PROMOS GOLD Medal WINNER in the 2014 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS BRONZE Medal winner in Dan Poytner's Global eBook Awards “Scattered Links is a novel that pulls its characters from the gutters and, in the end, celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit.” A reviewer comment. Thirteen-year-old Oksana lives on the streets of Russia with her pregnant mama and abusive aunt—both prostitutes. When Mama swells into labor, Oksana makes a decision to save herself from abandonment, a decision that torments her forever. But her plan fails when her aunt dumps her in an orphanage before she has the chance to say goodbye to her mama or tell her the secret that haunts her. Scattered Links is a story of family and the consequences that come from never learning how to love. It’s a story of a girl’s inability to bond with her adopted family and the frustrations that follow. How can a child understand the mechanics of forming a healthy relationship when she never had a mother who answered her cries, held her when she was frightened, fed her when she was hungry, or loved her unconditionally? Only when the child meets a rescued abused horse, and recognizes the pain in his eyes, does she begin to trust again. ---- CAPTIVATING! SCATTERED LINKS takes you down the street of nearly any Eastern European town, arm-in-arm with the orphaned. Michelle has captured the beauty and horror millions of children live everyday. The attention to detail is impressive. Having lived in a post-Soviet country for a time, visiting orphaned children, this fictional account rings with truth, from the heart-wrenching pain of abandonment to the realization of self-worth, and the love family and faith brings. Thank you for such an uplifting book, appropriate for the young reader, as well as adult. May your heart be encouraged, as mine was. Kim de Blecourt, speaker and award-winning author of "Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom"

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2895187

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marina Yurlova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UOM:39015019343899

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Russia Farewell by Marina Yurlova Pdf

Author : Artemy M. Kalinovsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674058668

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A Long Goodbye by Artemy M. Kalinovsky Pdf

Chronicles the Soviet Union's nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan in the 1980s and compares it to the challenges the United States may face in withdrawing from the region.

Author : Craig W.H. Luther,David Stahel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811768825

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Soldiers of Barbarossa by Craig W.H. Luther,David Stahel Pdf

The scope and scale of Operation Barbarossa—the German invasion of the Soviet Union—make it one of the pivotal events of the Second World War. Yet our understanding of both the military campaign as well as the “war of annihilation” conducted throughout the occupied territories depends overwhelmingly on “top-down” studies. The three million German soldiers who crossed the Soviet border and experienced this war are seldom the focus and are often entirely ignored. Who were these men and how did they see these events? Luther and Stahel, two of the leading experts on Operation Barbarossa, have reconstructed the 1941 campaign entirely through the letters (as well as a few diaries) of more than 200 German soldiers across all areas of the Eastern Front. It is an original perspective on the campaign, one of constant combat, desperate fear, bitter loss, and endless exertions. One learns the importance of comradeship and military training, but also reads the frightening racial and ideological justifications for the war and its violence, which at times lead to unrelenting cruelty and even mass murder. Soldiers of Barbarossa is a unique and sobering account of 1941, which includes hundreds of endnotes by Luther and Stahel providing critical context, corrections, and commentary.