Emigrant children. Zenkovsky V.V., Tsurikov N.A.

About 100 years ago, the revolution and the subsequent civil war were a terrible test for millions of Russians. Due to wars, hunger, terror, banditry, more than 2 million people left Russia and turned out to be emigrants. Tens of thousands of children - together with relatives or as orphans - were also thrown out of the country.

This book, first published in 1925 in Prague, is an amazing evidence of the tragic history of revolutionary Russia. It contains quotes selected from more than two thousand works of young emigrants on the topic "What I remember about Russia." Teenagers talk about the deaths of close from wounds, diseases and hunger, about the hardships of flight to foreign countries, about loneliness, fears and a complete misunderstanding of what they were deprived of the joy of life. Living voices of compatriots allow not only to see the history of the country through the fate of ordinary people, but also to think about the price of political and social crises.