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Likhachev, Dmitry S. [Author] ; Adams, Bernard [Contributor]; Kun, Miklós [Contributor]

Reflections on the Russian Soul

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Reflections on the Russian Soul : A Memoir
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    The Last of the Russian Intelligentsia
    Foreword to the Russian Edition
    Foreword to the English Edition
    The House of Likhachev
    The Children of M. -M. Likhachev
    My Childhood
    The Disappearance of Katerinushka
    The Petersburg of my Childhood
    Kuokkala
    The Crimea
    A Volga Cruise, 1914
    The Philanthropic Society Grammar School
    K. 1. May's Grammar School and Modern School
    The Revolution-Outward Impressions
    Life in No.l State Printing-house
    Taytsy, Olgino, Toksovo
    The Lentovskaya School
    Leonid Vladimirovich Georg
    The University
    The Red Terror
    The Making of a Philosophy
    S. A. Alekseyev-Askoldov
    Khelfernak
    The Brotherhood of St Serafim of Sarov
    The Cosmic Academy of Sciences
    Arrest and Imprisonment
    Kern Transfer Point and the Crossing to Solovki Island
    The Camp Topography of Solovki
    The Scenery of Solovki
    Krimkab
    The Diagonal of a Child's Blanket
    The Visit by Maksim Gorki and the Mass Executions of 1929
    The Solovki Museum
    The Solovki Theatre
    Solovki People
    A Few Fragments
    Leaving Solovki
    Zvanka and Tikhvin. Release
    The Fate of My Friends after Solovki
    The Repression of the '30s
    The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    Attempts at Writing
    My Conviction Quashed
    I Fail the Exams
    I Leave the Academy of Sciences Press
    Novgorod
    The Blockade
    Two Letters about the Blockade of Leningrad
    Prorabotki
    A Trip to Solovki in 1966
    My last time on Solovki
    NOTES
    Pictures
  • Contributor: Likhachev, Dmitry S. [VerfasserIn]; Adams, Bernard [MitwirkendeR]; Kun, Miklós [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2022]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9789633864920
  • Keywords: Intellectuals Russia (Federation) Biography ; Intellectuals Soviet Union Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, revered as ‘a guardian of national culture’. Reflections on the Russian Soul is an incredible account of an intellectual’s turbulent journey through twentieth century Russia. Likhachev re-counts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and reproduces the air of passed years in Russia. Likhachev vividly portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exile and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovki. He describes his first-hand experience of brutality in prison during the early Stalin years and the incident that not only saved him but also haunted him for the rest of his life. He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Lichachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev’s poignant return to Solovki as a free man
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