Русская трагедия. Дороги дальние, невозвратные

The book opens one of the pages of the tragic history of forced Russian emigration. From the historical depths of two centuries - the end of the 19th and most of the 20th - the memoirist brings to the reader invaluable living evidence of the past. Local life from the author's childhood, the Pavlovsk Institute, the stage school in St. Petersburg, the first acting experience, the happy start of family life - everything that was mercilessly swept away by the large-scale demolition of Russian life in 1917. The author also recreates the realities of the Russian tragedy of the 20th century: the difficult ways of saving the family of a naval officer and his entourage in Russia engulfed in revolutionary chaos, irreparable losses and irretrievable emigrant roads from Kerch through Bizerte to Marseille and Paris, the painful development of living space in a foreign country.
Memoirs of N.S. Aleinikova are supplemented with an afterword and comments by the author's son, Rostislav Vsevolodovich Don, who became a major French diplomat.
and public and political figures, scientists involved in the formation of new spiritual values ​​of the resurgent Russia.