Children of the Great Terror

The author of the book - Svetlana Valerianovna Obolenskaya - historian for education, daughter of the visible party and statesman Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky (Osinsky), repressed in 1937 and shot in the 1938th.
In the book two sections - memories. Stories and essays, - but all texts are essentially related to each other. This is a sad story first the girls, then the girls finally a mature woman left in childhood without parents (Svetlana Obolensky"s mother was also arrested, but she stayed alive and after many years came to the will) In childhood, Svetlana Obolenskaya comfortable and super-food life in the Kremlin, and after his parents arrest, a children"s house, a wanderland, the impossibility of entering graduate school, work in the wilderness, alienation from the mother, without which it grew. In general, this is one of the many similar stories that marked the Stalin Epoch. But she is written with a literary gifted person and read on one breath, with a heart trepidation