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The memoirs of American diplomat Charles Thayer, who worked as part of the first US embassy in Moscow in the 1930s, are published in Russian for the first time. However, individual plots of Thayer's book have long been widely known. They are associated with the holding at the US Embassy in Moscow in 1934-1935. luxurious receptions and the enchanting "Spring Festival", which served for one of the guests of the embassy - Mikhail Bulgakov - as a prototype of the ball at Satan's in the novel "The Master and Margarita". Thayer was the organizer of this festival. The book "Bears in Caviar" was first published in the USA in 1951. Most of it is devoted to the years spent by the author in Russia (1933-1937, 1940-1942). In addition, the author shares amusing memories of the years of study at the Military Academy at West Point, of the dramatic period of his diplomatic service in Nazi Germany in 1937-1940, of the establishment of the US Embassy in Afghanistan in 1942-1944, of friendly meetings military leaders of the allied countries in Europe in...
ISBN | 978-5-7777-0635-5 |
Publisher | Весь Мир |
Publication date | 2016 |
Number of Pages | 328 |
Bookbinding | Softcover |