The Russian Album
A Nonfiction, Canada, Cultural book. A fascinating search by a Canadian writer and journalist into the past of his father's ultra-aristocratic Russian family. His...
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Award In The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, and on stories passed down from father to son, he comes to terms with the meaning of...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780312281830 / 312281838
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A fascinating search by a Canadian writer and journalist into the past of his father's ultra-aristocratic Russian family. His great great grandfather helped lead the Russian army into Napolean's Paris, his fascinating great-grandfather helped determine the Russo-Chinese border, served as Russian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and... The power of memories, of exile, of what's been lost... Ignatieff, whose family has left Russia during the Revolution, has written a very elegiac, nostalgic remembrance about family and the country that has disappeared. It's beautifully written, with emotion but without embarrassing sentimentality, and it does capture the elusive quality... An important statement about valuing inter-generational communication and history. Ignatieff undertook to write an entire history of his grandparents, who he had known, to know them better and understand who he is in terms of his history. Of interest to young or middle-aged parents who wonder of what use extended family are, and are...
