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Kyra's story: Reminiscences of a Girlhood in Revolutionary Russia
Kyra's story Reminiscences of a Girlhood in Revolutionary Russia Author:Kyra Karadja The moving story of a revolutionary childhood and youth admits the reader to events behind the Russian Revolution which have never before been presented in just this way. Kyra's Story is written with the freshness of a young woman looking back to her own past with a rare honesty. — Elements of the fate of the privileged after the Russian Revo... more »lution are here as well as unique experiences - a glamorous childhood, the terrors of the Revolution, the flight with the faithful old nurse to the Caucasus, the death of the father in the typhus epidemic, the years of famine, the troubled and confused struggles of a group of alienated young people in a drug scene that provides a strange preview of the drug scene in the United States after World War II, and the astounding courtship of a fierce mountaineer.
All Russian exiles carry with them a continuing sense of kinship with their native country and to those they left behind. Kyra's Story makes us see Russia of fifty years ago vividly, nostagically, warmly.