Personal History: Russian Blood, Part 1 Shideyevo
New Yorker, April 26, 1982
In 1820, at the age of thirty-six, Andrei Fyodorovitch Lukianovitch left his regiment (the Hussars) to become the governor of Simbirsk, a sleepy province on the Volga. After six uneventful years there, he retired to his land on the Orel, in the Ukraine, where he built a large house on the …Read More
beautiful fotos from my native homeland
thanks facebook for connecting me with Paul Drapkin, a potter who lives on our former estate, Shideyevo, a magical place in eastern Ukraine, in the oblast of Poltava, where my grandmother and her brother Andrey Avinoff grew up, to which 84 pages of my book, Russian Blood are devoted. Take a look at these stunning …Read More