Valentina
Subtitle: an odyssey from pre-revolutionary Russia through war-torn Europe to a Pacific paradise / Emiko Lyovin
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bloomington, IN]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781466944329; 9781466944336; 9781466944312
Subjects: Refugees; Russians; Biography; History
Description: "This book is written in tribute to my mother-in-law, Valentina Valerianovna Lyovina, with whom I lived under the same roof for a period of some ten years beginning in 1968. Her stories inspired me to share her life's adventures with like minded people. Valentina related the central events of her life to me during the ten-year interval...I collected and collated the historical facts before I started writing her biography. I also interviewed the living relatives of Valentina to check their versions of her story..." -- Foreword.
Notes: "The first version of this book was published in Japanese by Bugei Shunjū, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998. The English translation contatns additional information about her later life" -- Foreword.

Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. A child of the clergy. Proposal on Nevsky Prospect; title: Birth and death; title: Pascha; title: Tantochka's house; title: Two brothers; title: A sister; title: Calf-love; title: pt. 2. The twilight of imperial Russia. Petrograd; title: Idealogues flock home; title: Cousins; title: Brother's wife; title: February revolution; title: pt. 3. Fate driven by revolution. Ekaterinodar; title: The red army; title: Valentina elopes; title: Kharkov; title: Amidst civil war; title: Novorossiysk; title: Leaving Mother Russia; title: pt. 4. From Nazism to Communism. The first foreign land of refuge; title: Macedonia; title: For love or money; title: Dalmatia; title: Under Nazi occupation; title: Belgrade; title: Slovenia and Montenegro; title: Leaving Yugoslavia; title: pt. 5. To the land of the rest. Refugees in Italy; title: To Canada; title: The new member of the family; title: Valentina's twilight years.