Bureau de la Presse-Russe à Constantinople c. 1920

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• Recreating Saint Petersburg's nightlife in Constantinople (1920)

  "...At the edge of the city, almost outside of it, there was a suburb intersected by a long street called Şişli, and this is where a…

• “If you wanted to get on those ships you had to act quickly...” (1920)

  “...The saddest moment in all these evacuations comes when you have to decide which archives to bring. In Kiev, I had to burn most…

• Meeting Gurdjieff in Constantinople, in 1921

  From Vasily Shulgin’s memoir: Once in 1921, in Constantinople, I ran into an officer I used to know before our exile. He was once young…