
Six Days in Leningrad
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Paullina Simons
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Paullina Simons
The never-before-told story of the journey behind THE BRONZE HORSEMAN.
From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling BRONZE HORSEMAN saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction as captivating and heart-wrenching as the lives of Tatiana and Alexander.
Only a few chapters into writing her first story set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons travelled to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) with her beloved Papa. What began as a research trip turned into six days that forever changed her life, the course of her family, and the novel that became THE BRONZE HORSEMAN. After a quarter-century away from her native land, Paullina and her father found a world trapped in yesteryear, with crumbling stucco buildings, entire families living in seven-square-metre communal apartments, and barren fields bombed so badly that nothing would grow there even fifty years later. And yet there were the spectacular white nights, the warm hospitality of family friends and, of course, the pelmeni and caviar.
At times poignant, at times inspiring and funny, this is both a fascinating glimpse into the inspiration behind the epic saga, and a touching story of a family's history, a father and a daughter, and the fate of a nation.
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The people, the places, the events of the book, her family’s experience, her father’s heart, the war, the poverty, the joys, the food,, and even the smells, toilets and all, will also creep into you, the reader, and, perhaps tug and your own life and heart as few reads/listens can.
It took me a bit to accustom myself to the author’s narration, because her New York accent was so present. But as the story and her deep feeling began to take over, I accepted that I wouldn’t have been able to understand Russian.
Please carve out some undisturbed listening or reading time to allow the full impact of her return to a Russian experience to experience it, yourself, in a small, but powerful way. Let it move you.
Moving
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Tearful beautiful 1st hand look
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