Family in the Red Whirlwind. Rakhmanova A.

The frank and dramatic diary trilogy Ali Rakhmanova (the pseudonym Galina Dureagina von Hoyer) has never been published in Russian. The manuscripts, miraculously taken to Austria even before the forced emigration, were later translated by the husband of Galina Dureagina - Arnulf von Hoyer - in German and published in Austria in 1931. Books were with great interest by readers in dozens of countries.

“Family in the Red Whirlwind”-the second book of the diary trilogy-covers the period of 1920-1925. Ali's family runs from the cruel reprisals of the Bolsheviks and suffers the hardships of refugee life. We have to get used to the fact that the former life will never return again. But not in the character of Ali to give up, especially since the wings of love grow behind your back!

Alya is almost happy, but the thoughts of broken fate of relatives, tears are always a strong father, mother’s illness fill her heart with anxiety. Life continues even in a wretched atmosphere, and a beggarly existence cannot stop its course. A small Yurka appears in the family. How scary for his fate, but he will live! This is the will of endless maternal love.