Reflections on the Russian soul : a memoir / Dmitry S. Likhachev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Likhachev, D. S. (Dmitriĭ Sergeevich)

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Standardized Title:

Vospominaniia. English.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Likhachev, D. S. (Dmitriĭ Sergeevich).

Likhachev, D. S.

Intellectuals--Soviet Union--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Soviet Union--Intellectual life.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 296 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hungary ; New York : Central European University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, revered as ‘a guardian of national culture’. Reflections on the Russian Soul is an incredible account of an intellectual’s turbulent journey through twentieth century Russia. Likhachev re-counts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and reproduces the air of passed years in Russia. Likhachev vividly portrays his childhood years in St. Petersburg and continues into his student life at Leningrad University that led to an agonizing period of imprisonment and near death. He describes how a harmless prank caught the attention of the Secret Police, resulting in his exile and confinement within the infamous prison island of Solovki. He describes his first-hand experience of brutality in prison during the early Stalin years and the incident that not only saved him but also haunted him for the rest of his life. He reflects on the years after his release from prison and the events leading up to the Second World War. His powerful recollection of the blockade of Leningrad provides the reader with a horrific insight into the harsh effects of war, hunger and survival. Lichachev goes on to describe post-war Russia and how his own livelihood developed from literary editor to a return to Leningrad University as Professor of History. This compelling autobiography finishes with Likhachev’s poignant return to Solovki as a free man.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Last of the Russian Intelligentsia

Foreword to the Russian Edition

Foreword to the English Edition

The House of Likhachev

The Children of M. -M. Likhachev

My Childhood

The Disappearance of Katerinushka

The Petersburg of my Childhood

Kuokkala

The Crimea

A Volga Cruise, 1914

The Philanthropic Society Grammar School

K. 1. May's Grammar School and Modern School

The Revolution-Outward Impressions

Life in No.l State Printing-house

Taytsy, Olgino, Toksovo

The Lentovskaya School

Leonid Vladimirovich Georg

The University

The Red Terror

The Making of a Philosophy

S. A. Alekseyev-Askoldov

Khelfernak

The Brotherhood of St Serafim of Sarov

The Cosmic Academy of Sciences

Arrest and Imprisonment

Kern Transfer Point and the Crossing to Solovki Island

The Camp Topography of Solovki

The Scenery of Solovki

Krimkab

The Diagonal of a Child's Blanket

The Visit by Maksim Gorki and the Mass Executions of 1929

The Solovki Museum

The Solovki Theatre

Solovki People

A Few Fragments

Leaving Solovki

Zvanka and Tikhvin. Release

The Fate of My Friends after Solovki

The Repression of the '30s

The Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Attempts at Writing

My Conviction Quashed

I Fail the Exams

I Leave the Academy of Sciences Press

Novgorod

The Blockade

Two Letters about the Blockade of Leningrad

Prorabotki

A Trip to Solovki in 1966

My last time on Solovki

NOTES

Pictures

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296)

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-003-72159-1

963-386-492-5

9781003721598

OCLC:

733997156