Samovar on the Table (ePub)
A Family Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the spring of 1920, three ships steamed into the port of Famagusta in the British colony of Cyprus with sick and wounded officers and men of the White Russian army, together with their families and other civilians fleeing the victorious Bolsheviks at the...
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In the spring of 1920, three ships steamed into the port of Famagusta in the British colony of Cyprus with sick and wounded officers and men of the White Russian army, together with their families and other civilians fleeing the victorious Bolsheviks at the end of the Civil War, which had raged through the country after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Britain had offered transport and temporary sanctuary in its nearest territory. 1,546 desperate men, women, and children from two of the ships were housed in a WWI Turkish prisoner-of-war camp to wait for other countries to offer asylum; the other ship sailed on to Egypt and another camp. In Cyprus, some died and some moved on, but a group of about seventy saw opportunities for a new life on the island. They formed the core of a Russian community which attracted other migrs over the decades but whose story is largely unknown or forgotten, even on the island. One of them was the authors grandfather. The author has tracked down official documents and historical sources and interwoven them with her own notes and diaries to tell her personal and human account of a Russian family in Cyprus, through three generations and fifty years of dramatic events.
Autoren-Porträt von Lana der Parthogh
Born in Cyprus to White Russian parents, Lana der Parthogh had been to eleven different schools in three countries by the age of seventeen when she walked into the offices of The Times of Cyprus, a controversial English-language daily during the EOKA uprising in the 1950s, and got her first job as a journalist. For the rest of her life she has worked on newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, with experience spanning from a year of working on Vogue, the fashion magazine in London, to more than two decades running English and foreign-language radio programs on the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. Married to international news photographer, Georges der Parthogh (with whom she has two sons) she was drawn into the politics and human drama of the cataclysmic events in Cyprus and the Middle East during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. She interweaves personal memories of those years with the fascinating and mostly unknown story of how a group of White Russians (including her grandparents) found themselves on a small island in the Mediterranean, a British colony they had never heard of, in 1920, after the Civil War following the 1917 Russian Revolution scattered hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lana der Parthogh
- 2016, 430 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
- ISBN-10: 1524634840
- ISBN-13: 9781524634841
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2016
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