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