Get Hold Of Reflections On A Russian Soul, A Memoir Envisioned By Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev Accessible Through Textbook

compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history.
Is is an incredible account of of an intellectual's turbulent journey throughth Century Russia, Likhachev recounts the fortunes of people with whom he came into contact and produces the air of passed years in Russia.
Memoir is the key word, This is a set of reminiscences of a Russian literary scholar from St, Petersburg Leningrad, Dmitry Likhachov, who lived fromto,

Arrested for no good reason the overwhelming norm, Likhachov experienced months in prison and several years in a Soviet labor camp on the White Sea where Stalin had decided into build in a hurry, with forced manual camp labor, a canal from the White Sea to Lake Onega, so connecting the White Sea indirectly to the Baltic Sea.
Around,of the workers died thus, Likhachov also survived theday siege of Leningrad, which was isolated by the Germans during WW, resulting in up to,deaths per month from starvation.
He somehow maintained his good morals and strength of character, His survival was largely a matter of luck,

During these experiences Likhachov met many other intellectuals,of whom even the wellread in Russian literature and history will never have heard of.
It seems that much of the book was about those people and so was of minor interest.
Of the remaining, little of note is reported,

Likhachov's experiences in the labor camp and the Leningrad siege were of interest, but there are a number of books about those that are more absorbing and informative.
Thus this book is apparently of substantial interest only to Russian readers familiar with the Russian intellectuals whom Likhachov reminisces about.
They may read it in Russian,

Thus I don't understand why this was translated into English, As to the writing style, for a memoir it is satisfactory, but for a book of possible interest to the general reader, it is as if composed by a commonplace writer in serious need of an editor.
There is very little about Old Russian literature, the writer's primary academic interest, or about the author's other considerable work, dedicated to preserving the best in Russian culture.

Russian medievalist, linguist, and concentration camp survivor, During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the worlds foremost scholar of the Old East

Slavic language and its literature.
Russian medievalist, linguist, and concentration camp survivor, During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old East Slavic language and its literature.
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