A Hundred Years Ago

10 hrs. 1 min.

Language Russian

Author Frederick Marryat

Narrator Denis Koreev

Description

"Merciful Sovereign! In fulfilling your wish, I rewrote for you several episodes from the diary of my youth—those adventures that were so abundant back then in the sea service. In those years, while keeping records, I passed on everything that happened to me—without embellishment and without silence—and everything I experienced and felt. And now I have not changed anything, because I knew: you are interested in learning my feelings at the time, not my present-day reflections on them. They say that the life of any person—even the most unnoticed—can serve as a moral lesson if you show it as it truly is. I hope that even in my simple account, both the young and the older will find plenty of instructive and useful things if, someday, it is destined to become known to everyone..."