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| #5536690 in Books | 1990-08-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.82 x5.24l,.91 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||6 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Slavic Nostalgia and American Striving|By marronglace|It was disconcerting reading Russian Blood, A Family Chronicle. The story of the author's antecedents' lives in pre-Revolutionary Russia was, indeed, evocative of a lost time and place, but one could not help realizing that the period in which this book was written, researched, and published occurred prior to its 1982 date|About the Author|Alex Shoumatoff was formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker and is now contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He is the author of nine previous books and lives in upstate New York with his wife and five children
In the early l980s, Alex Shoumatoff became curious about his roots. Both his grandmothers were in their 90s, and with a sense of urgency he collected their stories and reminiscences about their life as White Russian aristocrats, which was unceremoniously put an end to by the Bolshevik Revolution; how they "got out" and made new lives in America. The narrative he went on to assemble, which "compares favorably with Nabokov," one critic wrote, brings to life the langorous T...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Russian Blood | Alex Shoumatoff.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
