Echoes of a Native Land Two Centuries of a Russian Village

Name: Echoes of a Native Land Two Centuries of a Russian Village
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ISBN: 9780679757078

ISBN-10: 0679757074

ISBN-13: 9780679757078

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Authors: Serge Schmemann

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Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history. First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the prerevolutionary life of the village of Sergiyevskoye (now called Koltsovo), where the spacious estate of his mother's family was the seat of a manor house as vast and imposing as a grand hotel. In this village, on this estate--ringed with orchards, traversed by endless paths through linden groves, overseen by a towering brick church, and bordered by a sparkling-clear…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Serge Schmemann is deputy foreign editor of the New York Times. He has served as New York Times Bureau Chief in Moscow and received a Pulitzer in 1990.