No Tea For Fruit
A young girl's story of the Russian Revolution
| Ten years old, political
prisoner: this is Pavla Zhiltsova's coming of age. When
World War I breaks out, her father leaves their home in Khabarovsk,
near the Pacific, to fight with the army of Tsar Nicholas II on the
Western Front. Pavla and her mother go to him across all of
Russia when he is wounded, and the family heads east towards home,
but their journey turns into a survival saga. |
| About the Author Pavla Zhiltsova Yakubovsky is one of a handful of people who remember the Russian Revolution firsthand. After the abbreviated childhood described in this memoir, she fled Bolshevik Russia for Harbin, China, living there until 1955. For the past fifty years she has made her home in Seattle, Washington, where she celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28, 2007. |
| About the Translators Genevra Gerhart is the author of The Russian's World and Russian Context, both by Slavica. Frith Maier has published Trekking in Russia & Central Asia (Mountaineers Books) and Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan (University of Washington Press). Frith and Genevra have been friends of Pavla's for many years. She first told them this story at visits over tea and cookies, then wrote her memoir at their urging. Order your Copy Today!
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