Commentary on the Brushtein trilogy "Road goes to the distance"

Alexandra Yakovlevna Brushtein began writing an autobiographical trilogy "The road goes to Dal" in 1956. The 72 -year -old, deaf and almost blind, Brushtein wrote a book, whose heroine she herself was, but noging.
Sasha lives in Vilna (now Vilnius) with mom and dad, cook, bonna and teachers and is preparing to enter the Institute of noble girls - this book begins. With encyclopedic accuracy, almost 50 years, Brushtein recreates a city that has to survive two world wars and the Holocaust. This accuracy concerns not only the details of life, but also the experiences of people of the late 19th century, who have already felt the approach of changes - political, social, technical.
All events described in the book are reliable, each character - regardless of its place and weight in the book - has a real prototype, whose name and surname is in most cases. This allowed Maria Helfond the researchist - to find in the archives and include in the text of the comments not only confirmation of the existence of a person, but also to trace his history, to find out how he lived before, during and after the events described in the book. And this fullness and thoroughness of the commentary makes it possible to publish it separately, without the commented text.
The book that you hold in your hands is the first part of the project, includes a commentary on the two stories of the trilogy - "The road goes into the distance ..." and "at dawn hour".
Drawing up, editing, designing a series Ilya Bernstein
The 2nd edition, fixed