This is an account of life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the Revolution, culminating with the author's escape to Scotland. It is a story of two families, separated in culture and geography, but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage.

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

History

Fraser, Eugenie

Russia

Transworld Publishers

The Dvina Remains

The sequel to "The House by the Dvina". This book completes the story with Eugenie Fraser's first return visit to Russia 50 years after her family fled to Scotland due to the Revolution. But, it was another 18 years before she was allowed to visit Archangel and make contact with relatives.

Biographies & Memoirs

Corgi

From the author of The House by the Divina, the second part of a colourful life. Fraser recounts the early years of married life in India and provides a fascinating view of the ten years leading up to Indian Independence.

A Home by the Hooghly

Transworld Publishers, Ltd

Set in Archangel, the northernmost port of Old Russia, this memoir tells the story of two families, different in culture, history, and geography, but united by the Russian-Scottish marriage of the author's parents

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Scottish Childhood

Walker Co

House By The Dvina, The * A Russian-Scottish Childhood

Community & Culture

Edinburgh: Mainstream

Episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction fill this gripping story of a life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the Revolution The riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage includes the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love, the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband, the extraordinary courtship of her parents, and her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905. Brought up in Russia but taken on visits to Scotland, Eugenie Fraser marvelously evokes a child's reactions to two totally different environments, sets of customs, and family backgrounds. With the events of 1914 to 1920—the war with Germany, the Revolution, the murder of the Tsar, and the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the north—came the disintegration of Russia and of family life. The stark realities of hunger, deprivation, and fear are sharply contrasted with the adventures of childhood. The reader shares the family's suspense and concern about the fates of its members and relives with Eugenie her final escape to Scotland.

Mainstream Publishing

A home by the Hooghly: A jute wallah's wife

Asia

Mainstream Pub

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