| Description |
280 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, genealogical table ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
A moving account of a close-knit family during a tumultuous era. Tarasov, a colonel in the 'White' Russian army, his wife Aida and their five children suffered the traumas of the Revolution and the Civil War which followed it. The story details Aida's search for her husband across the vast expanse of Siberia, her separation from her five children during the turmoil, and the unbelievable events which led to the family's eventual escape into China in 1922. A new life began in the bustling city of Harbin, the 'Moscow of the Orient'. Years of hard work and deprivation brought them some semblance of a good life, only to have it shattered by the arrival of the Japanese aggressors in 1937. The War years followed, and then a few years of relative peace before the arrival of the Chinese 'Reds'. The consequent mass exodus of the 'White' Russians from China in 1949 to a Displaced Persons' Camp on the remote Philippine island of Tubabao is chronicled with startling detail. The final leg of this epic journey brings the whole family to Australia |
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Biography and autobiography |
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Family history |
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Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 273 |
| Subject |
Tarasov family.
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Soviet Union. Sukhoputnye voĭska -- Officers -- Biography.
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Soviet Union. Sovetskai͡a Armii͡a -- Officers -- Biography.
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Soviet Union. Sukhoputnye voÄ-ska. -- Officers -- Biography
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Russians -- China -- Biography.
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Russians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Russia -- Biography.
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USSR -- Biography.
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USSR -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2003447420 |
| ISBN |
1877058017 : |
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