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Dasha
"A quite pointless book, in my opinion, and one that certainly does not warrant the concentration required to try to sort out motives and plot patterns and character development from the rather confused shifts of focus from one set of characters to another, or from the long and tenuous conversations which are typical of Russian novels, it would seem, but which in this book get nowhere. Dasha is a protegee of Frossia (an earlier novel by that name was equally dull), a cripple in childhood, cured in a Crimean sanitorium and returned to a suburb of Leningrad to the new home of her peasant mother, now married to a stuffed shirt in the Soviet bureaucracy. Attempt is made to give a picture of life in Russia, emerging from the deprivations of Civil War and its aftermath, and preceding the outbreak of the present war. But it seems derivative, second hand, and unconvincing. Miss Almedingen was at her best when writing her own story, Tomorrow Will Come. Fiction is not her forte."--Kirkus
Miracle at the Litza
The dramatic story of the Nazis’ 1941 attempt to take Murmansk, including firsthand accounts of the action on the front line. In the early summer of 1941, German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out from northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would ensure Hitler supplies of nickel from Finnish mines and bring the strategically important port city of Murmansk under German control. The roadless rocky terrain and extreme weather created major challenges for the German troop movements. Despite this, Dietl’s men made quick gains on his Russian foe, and they came ...
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Biographischer Index Rußlands und der Sowjetunion
Der Index enthält die biographischen Kurzinformationen über die 176.000 Personen aus dem Russischen Biographischen Archiv und dem Biographischen Archiv der Sowjetunion (1917-1991) - zusammen 283.000 biographischen Einträge.
