Download or read book Lost and Found in Russia written by Susan Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. Returning again and again, for over a decade, to the deep heartland of this rapidly-evolving country, Susan Richards has encountered extraordinary people and forged lasting friendships. Through their unforgettable stories and her own experiences she reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated. Illuminating a forgotten people and sweeping away traditional assumptions, "Lost and Found in Russia" is a compelling and essential portrait - poignant, yet full of hope for a new future.
Download or read book Lost and Found in Russia written by Susan Richards and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards struck up some extraordinary friendships with people in the middle of this historical drama. Anna, a questing journalist, struggles to express her passionate spirituality within the rules of the new society. Natasha, a restless spirit, has relocated from Siberia in a bid to escape the demands of her upper-class family and her own mysterious demons. Tatiana and Misha, whose business empire has blossomed from the ashes of the Soviet Union, seem, despite their luxury, uneasy in this new world. Richards watches them grow and change, their fortunes rise and fall, their hopes soar and crash. Through their stories and her own experiences, Susan Richards demonstrates how in Russia, the past and the present cannot be separated. She meets scientists convinced of the existence of UFOs and mind-control warfare. She visits a cult based on working the land and a tiny civilization founded on the practices of traditional Russian Orthodoxy. Gangsters, dreamers, artists, healers, all are wondering in their own ways, “Who are we now if we’re not communist? What does it mean to be Russian?” This remarkable history of contemporary Russia holds a mirror up to a forgotten people. Lost and Found in Russia is a magical and unforgettable portrait of a society in transition.
Download or read book Lost and Found in Russia written by Susan Richards and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with their new ways of living. Here, Susan Richards demonstrates how in Russia the past and present cannot be separated.
Download or read book Up North Or Lost and Found in Russia and the Arctic Wastes written by Janet Gordon Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up North Or Lost and Found in Russia and the Arctic Wastes Etc With Plates written by Janet Hardy (formerly Gordon.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up North written by Janet Gordon and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia Lost Or Found written by Hiski Haukkala and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost and Found in Russia written by Olga Godim and published by Eternal Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mother-Daughter minuet-Russian style. After a shocking discovery that her daughter was switched at birth thirty-four years ago, Amanda embarks on a trip to Russia to find her biological daughter. Meanwhile, Sonya-a thirty-four-year-old Russian immigrant and a former dancer-battles her daughter's teenage rebellion. While Amanda wades through the mires of foreign bureaucracy, Sonya dreams of dancing. Both mothers are searching-for their daughters and for themselves.
Download or read book Up North or Lost and Found in Russia and the Arctic Wastes etc written by afterwards HARDY GORDON (Janet) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Fortune of the Tsars written by William Clarke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its peak before the first world war, the fortune of the Romanovs of Russia has been calculated at over 45 billion dollars. It included fabulous state jewels, exquisite Faberge eggs, the palaces in and around St. Petersburg and the Crimea, the royal yachts and trains, and millions in Tsarist bank accounts in London, New York, and elsewhere. Since the secret murders of Nicholas and Alexandra and their family in 1918, and the subsequent, and controversial, discovery of their remains, the mystery persists: What happened to all that wealth? Questions surrounding the lost fortune are inevitably tied up with the issue of just who was killed that terrible summer's night in 1918 at Ekaterinburg. William Clarke goes to the heart of the Romanov story, to the Central State Archives in Russia, which for three-quarters of a century had been filed away in secrecy, and is only now open to investigation. The result of over twenty years of research, Clarke's quest reveals the truth behind claims to the Tsarist fortune made by the likes of Anna Anderson and Michel Goleniewski, and sheds new light on this most intriguing of historical mysteries.
Download or read book Lost and Found written by Aušra Paulauskienė and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ausra Paulauskiene's book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect. For the first time, Abraham Cahan's autobiography The Education of Abraham Cahan and Ezra Brudno's autobiographical novel The Fugitive receive an extensive coverage, while Goldie Stone's My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach's That Man Donaleitis (sic) receive their first scholarly consideration ever. The author argues that misrepresentations, misattributions and exclusions of Lithuanian legacy in the U.S. were produced by major political events of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Up North written by Janet Gordon and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Children written by Jane Swan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia Absent and Present written by Wladimir Weidle and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Lost Eagle written by Steven Ingman-Greer and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic drama of world-changing events revealed through the visionary consciousness of Tatiana, one of the four daughters of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. This is Tatiana's story, told through her diary: from idyllic childhood in the last royal family of Russia, to brutal imprisonment at the hands of the revolutionaries; from her last-minute escape and secret exile in England - for which there exists actual historical and documentary evidence - to her fulfilment in love and eventual tragic fate as she disappears from history under an assumed name. Within the storyline of history, Tatiana's passionate and impressionistic diary entries are set against the gathering storm of the revolution and the ominous indicators of the Romanov family's impending doom - and against the machinations of the British establishment which decided her fate. ,
Download or read book Faberg Lost and Found written by Abraham Kenneth Snowman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1993 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 25 years Carl Faberge and his firm served as jeweler and goldsmith to the tsars of Russia and other influential people. Here, straight from the St. Petersburg archives, jewelry expert Snowman reproduces hundreds of drawings and photographs (most in full color) from two newly discovered Faberge design books.
Download or read book Lost and Found written by Kristy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alena is an eighteen-year-old girl from Russia and she has seen her fair share of hardships. Being born and raised in one of the poorest areas in the country she recounts how her family made a way. They didn't have much but they had a plan than that worked until her mother got ill. Living in poverty they could not afford a doctor so she was forced to watch her mother die as she became the woman of the house. Shortly after the death of her mother her father also died leaving her and her siblings homeless and forced to enter into an orphanage. Within the time that she is at the orphanage all she wants is to be reunited with her family until she is adopted by an American family. But it is the custom of making a wish on your birthday that continues to give Alena hope. She holds onto a picture of her family and as she blows out her birthday candles she closes her eyes...hoping her wish comes true. (*Actress must speak some Russian within the piece.)
