Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband. My Ordeals in 1918 Cover Image

В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд. Из пережитого в 1918 году.
Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband. My Ordeals in 1918

Author(s): Nikita G. Okhotin, Marina Grigorievna Salman
Subject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Russian Literature, History of Communism, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, History of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: 20th-Century Russian History; Bolshevik Revolution; Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (1850—1928); “My Ordeals in 1918” (1919); Life Story; Russian Emigration; Soviet Terror;

Summary/Abstract: This is the first publication in toto of a forgotten memoir “My Ordeals in 1918” by baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband’s. Originally written in 1919, three years prior to her fleeing Petrograd, the memoir tells the story of her three-week detention by the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka) in 1918.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 284-331
  • Page Count: 48
  • Language: Russian