Russian at heart
Subtitle: Sonechka's story
By: Olga & John Hawkes
Contributors: Hawkes, John, 1937-
Publisher: Wily Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Christchurch, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780958292337
Other titles: Sonechka's story
Description: The Russian revolution left the orphaned Sonechka Balk destitute and destroyed her idyllic life in the Crimea. Aged 19 in 1924, she fled to Shanghai, where she became one of the thirty thousand White Russian exiles, shunned by the rest of the world. In 1948 she emigrated to the United States with her two daughters, Olga and Margarita.
Notes: "From revolutionary Russia to exile and love in war-torn Shanghai and refuge in America"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256).