russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: December 2013
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2013_12_01_archive.html
Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Abram Shlonsky and Matus Kanin, my friends and theachers (part 1). It was a wonderful June morning when I went to the station with a bag on my shoulders. I sadly looked out of the carriage window and saw my mother, waving her handkerchief and wiping tears. So my adolescence ended. I came to the town of Yekaterinoslav, a big industrial and trade center of the Dnester region. At this stormy pre-revolutionary time the workers often made strikes, laid down demands of political and...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: Finnish Captivity (part 2)
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2014/06/finnish-captivity-part-2.html
Saturday, June 14, 2014. Finnish Captivity (part 2). The first days of Finnish captivity. Suoyarvy camp. Camp in Svyat-Navolok .Liberalism and kindness of Finnes. A rouge and provocative agent from Odessa Yeremeev. A military doctor, son of Russian emigrants believes in the future of Russia. Doctor Karl Mary and his fiancée Erna. We were accommodated in a big barn where there were a few people already. There was a young girl in the middle of the barn. She covered with bandages and was moaning....Every...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: Suerskoye village (part 2)
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2014/03/suerskoye-village-part-2.html
Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Suerskoye village (part 2). See part one here. Smirnov agreed with me and continued his story. Despite that he personally had great respect for Trotsky he considered it necessary to criticize Trotsky’s position. He said: “ Lev Davydovich, your arguments are not conclusive, your passive position will result in activation of Stalin’s clique. What do you count on refusing from decisive struggle? 8221; The peasants shouted: “Afanasy is right; we are men, not sheep! Your language is a...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: September 2011
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
Saturday, September 24, 2011. My meetings with Trotsky. Analysis of Trotsky's personality and his erroneous conception of proletarian revolution. L D TROTSKY . SEVERAL FEATURES OF HIS PORTRAIT. About his first wife Alexandra Lvovna Bronshtain. The origin of. Absolutely wrong theory of proletarian revolution. EXTRACT FROM “TURNS OF DESTINY AND TYRANNY”. BOOK 3 p.134 - 153. Now I will tell about the first wife of Trotsky Alexandra Lvovna Bronshtain (Al.L.}. After her return from exile A.L. met wi...Discu...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: Captivity in Finland (part 1 )
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2014/04/captivity-in-finland-part-1.html
Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Captivity in Finland (part 1 ). The above-cited paradox noted by Rabelais deeply reveals the real and often hidden causes of defeats and victories in military battles. Sometimes it is not bravery, patriotism or military skill that decides the fate of countries and governments, but despair, the psychological state of soldiers and officers. Sometimes I was a witness of absolutely senseless but very brave behavior of young people who wanted to avoid suffering. The war has begun….
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: Grigory Grigorov's book as base for movie
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2014/06/grigory-grigorovs-book-as-base-for-movie.html
Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Grigory Grigorov's book as base for movie. After the first memoirs book by G. Grigorov “Turns of Destiny and Tyranny” appeared for sale, his family, who published the book, obtained enough readers references all over the world. No doubt, the fate of thoughtful yet active person of the cataclysms 20th century background interested various groups of readers. We are life witnesses of G. Grigorov's extraordinary yet charming personality. A brilliant and impres-sive character ...Sever...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: August 2010
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html
Sunday, August 8, 2010. Fragment from from “Turns of Destiny and Tyranny” by Grigory Grigorov. The chief of the jail was some Belokoz, he remained here from prerevolutionary time; my wife, who had been in the jail before the revolution, still remembers him. He learned to read and write on his own, liked to read adventure novels very much. In 1905 he joined a terrorist group. They set on fire landlords estates and even killed provocateur agents and especially cruel policemen. Makhno was senten...The milit...
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: October 2010
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html
Friday, October 22, 2010. Second book published in Petersburg. The second book has been published in Petersburg. The publishing house of Historical and Regional Studies Society. Under E.A. Balashov management has published 800 copies. It contains the extract about finnish captivity. The third book of Grigory Grigorov memoir. The third book of memoir Grigory Grigorov has been published. The first book was published by OGI publishing house in Moscow in 2005. The book was selled out in OZON. January 20, 2009.
russian---history.blogspot.com
Russian History: June 2014
http://russian---history.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Part of the memoirs - Leningrad 1934, after Kirov's killing. Saturday, June 14, 2014. Finnish Captivity (part 2). The first days of Finnish captivity. Suoyarvy camp. Camp in Svyat-Navolok .Liberalism and kindness of Finnes. A rouge and provocative agent from Odessa Yeremeev. A military doctor, son of Russian emigrants believes in the future of Russia. Doctor Karl Mary and his fiancée Erna. We were accommodated in a big barn where there were a few people already. There was a yo...
