"Евгения Фрейзер. The House by the Dvina (Дом на Двине, Мемуары) (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

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The House by the Dvina

A Russian Childhood


EUGENIE FRASER


©Eugenie Fraser 1984 Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh)Ltd. A
unique and moving account of life in Russia before, during and immediately
after the Revolution, The House by the Dvina is the fascinating story of
two families, separated in culture and geography, but bound together by a
Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic
as any fiction: the purchase by the author’s great- grandfather of a
peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love, the desperate journey by
sledge in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede for
her husband with Tsar Aleksandr
II, the
extraordinary courtship of her parents, and her Scottish granny being
caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905.Eugenie Fraser herself was
brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotland. She marvellously
evokes the reactions of a child of two totally different environments,
sets of customs and family backgrounds.
The characters on both sides as beautifully drawn and splendidly
memorable.




CONTENTS
Part I When All Was Young Part II Before the Storm Part III The Darkening
Skies Part IV Change and Devastation Part V Farewell House and Farewell
Home Epilogue


To my father PART I
WHEN ALL WAS YOUNG
CHAPTER
ONE

1912

I remember the station. Nikolayevsky Vokzal, it was called in those