LEADER 03890cam a2200361 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20220908141423.0 008 961202s1997 nyuab b 001 0deng 010 96052205 020 0679438106 (alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |bEnglish 041 eng 043 e-ur-ru 050 00 DK651.K5824 |bS36 1997 082 00 947/.26 |221 100 1 Schmemann, Serge, |d1945- 245 10 Echoes of a native land : |btwo centuries of a Russian village / |cSerge Schmemann. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bKnopf, |c1997. 300 350 p. : |bill., maps ; |c25 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-333) and index. 505 1. A Corner of Russia -- 2. Dreamy Syerzh -- 3. Exotic Aliens and Serfs -- 4. Cards and Madness -- 5. A Spiritual Cradle -- 6. Real Country People -- 7. A Leave-taking of Past Greatness -- 8. "We Will Renounce the Old World" -- 9. Soon It Will Be Ours -- 10. Hussars to Commissars -- 11. The Classes Struggle and a Tractor Arrives -- 12. On the Path to Communism -- 13. Seventeenth Versta -- 14. Thank You, Comrade Stalin -- 15. First the Garage, Then Build Democracy -- 16. We're Still Alive. 520 Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history. First, he draws on a family archive rich in pictorial as well as documentary treasure to bring us into the prerevolutionary life of the village of Sergiyevskoye (now called Koltsovo), where the spacious estate of his mother's family was the seat of a manor house as vast and imposing as a grand hotel. In this village, on this estate--ringed with orchards, traversed by endless paths through linden groves, overseen by a towering brick church, and bordered by a sparkling-clear river--we live through the cycle of a year: the springtime mud, summertime card parties, winter nights of music and good talk in a haven safe from the bitter cold and ever-present snow. Family recollections of life a century ago summon up an aura of devotion to tsar and church. The unjust, benevolent, complicated, and ultimately doomed relationship between master and peasants--leading to growing unrest, then to civil war--is subtly captured. Diary entries record the social breakdown step by step: grievances going unresolved, the government foundering, the status quo of rural life overcome by revolutionary fervor. Soon we see the estate brutally collectivized, the church torn apart brick by brick, the manor house burned to the ground. Some of the family are killed in the fighting; others escape into exile; one writes to his kin for the last time from the Gulag. The Soviet era is experienced as a time of privation, suffering, and lost illusions. The Nazi occupation inspires valorous resistance, but at great cost. Eventually all that remains of Sergiyevskoye is an impoverished collective. Without idealizing the tsarist past or wholly damning the regime that followed, Schmemann searches for a lost heritage as he shows how Communism thwarted aspiration and initiative. Above all, however, his book provides for us a deeply felt evocation of the long-ago life of a corner of Russia that is even now movingly beautiful despite the ravages of history and time. 580 Donation of Anatole Shub 600 30 Osorgin family. 651 0 Kolʹtsovo (Kaluzhskaia oblastʹ, Russia) |xHistory. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_000000000000000__26_SCH |70 |8GEN |9160765OSA |bOSA |d2022-09-07 |eShub |l0 |o947/.26 SCH |r2022-09-07 |w2022-09-07 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 jeGbvlYN 992 01 947_000000000000000__26_SCH |bQVS_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ__XT_7NI 966 |cIn the Research Room