β Scribed by Eugenie Fraser
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The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian--Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction: the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love; the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother to intercede with Tsar Aleksandr II for her husband; the extraordinary courtship of her parents; and her Scottish granny being caught up in the abortive revolution of 1905.Eugenie Fraser herself was brought up in Russia but was taken on visits to Scotland. She marvellously evokes a child's reactions to two totally different environments, sets of customs and family backgrounds, while the characters are beautifully drawn and splendidly memorable.With the events of 1914 to 1920 -- the war with Germany, the Revolution, the murder of the Tsar and the withdrawal of the Allied Intervention in the...
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