The Story of My Life. Notes of a Floodplain Dweller

At the center of the narrative is Ivan Yurov (1887–1954), a peasant from the Vologda province— the trials that fell to his lot during World War I, the revolution, and collectivization. The main theme of the mologa peasant Pavel Zaitsev (1919–1992) is the poetic world of the Mologa-Sheksna floodplain—“a powerful life-giving spring” that was forever lost when the Rybinsk Reservoir was created in the 1930s–1940s. The book is intended for a wide range of readers who are deeply interested in the complex and contradictory history of Russia in the 20th century. The publication combines two documentary texts—authentic testimony of the dramatic history of the first half of the 20th century.