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- ISBN
- 9781909961128
- EAN
- 9781909961128
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Journey Into Russia
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- iC-Haus Publishing
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 342 Pages
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When German journalist Jens M hling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed M hling's life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, M hling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone. Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today's most significant regions.
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Publisher
iC-Haus Publishing
ISBN-10
1909961124
ISBN-13
9781909961128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229098933
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Journey Into Russia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
342 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dk510.29
Reviews
Jens Mühling is a brave man. . . . The spine of his narrative remains the quest for Agafya, for a woman whose ancestors, at each of 'the crucial crossroads of Russian history', had refused to follow the herd. . . . It won't spoil the story to say that he and she (then 69) do finally meet, an encounter that Mühling describes movingly and elegantly. It's a tribute to the translator, Eugene H Hayworth, that this never reads like a book that was first written in German., Jens Mhling is a brave man. . . . The spine of his narrative remains the quest for Agafya, for a woman whose ancestors, at each of 'the crucial crossroads of Russian history', had refused to follow the herd. . . . It won't spoil the story to say that he and she (then 69) do finally meet, an encounter that Mhling describes movingly and elegantly. It's a tribute to the translator, Eugene H Hayworth, that this never reads like a book that was first written in German., To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol. The advice now would be to read Jens Mühling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page., [Mhling] meets a bewildering variety of 'old believers' in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . ., through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans. They all want to tell Mhling their life stories which, in his empathetic retelling, provide glimpses into other lives that are vivid and frequently moving., [Mühling] meets a bewildering variety of 'old believers' in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . ., through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans. They all want to tell Mühling their life stories which, in his empathetic retelling, provide glimpses into other lives that are vivid and frequently moving., To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol. The advice now would be to read Jens Mhling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.
Table of Content
ICE (KIEV) The Puzzle Russia is not a Country Lenin's Nose The Saviour of Chernobyl BLOOD (MOSCOW) We Fight, We Reconcile A Short History of the World A Kettle of Water Minus the Kettle The Trail of the Icons Yevgeny of Chechnya The Return of the Wooden Gods WIND (SAINT PETERSBURG) Peter the Seasick The Last Heir to the Throne A Would-Be Saint 24 Centimetres Beetles and Communists WATER (SIBERIA) Trans-Siberian Chocolate Do Bees Have a Five-Year Plan? The Messiah of the Mosquitoes You Shall Know Them by Their Beards Where to, Arkashka? Blood and Vodka GRASS (THE STEPPES) Wood People and Grass People The Morgue of Yekaterinburg The Cossacks' Last Battle A Trunk Full of Icons WOOD (TAIGA) Misha and Masha The Secrets of Russian Women The Long Walk to Paradise
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Essays & Travelogues, Customs & Traditions, Russia
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Travel, History, Social Science
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