Alexandrite: The Legend of a Siberian Stone

Author: Svertchkoff, Dimitri [Anna Mueller-Svertchkoff (trans.)]
Publisher: Anna Mueller-Svertchkoff
Place: Zurich
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: Nice copy
Category: Russian & Soviet Literature
Year: 1969
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: 267pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, notes, ÔI believe that every person who translates a book, or any other literary work, has a definite motive for doing so. The fact that “Alexandrite” was written by my uncle had undoubtedly played a role in my desire to translate it. However, this was not the only reason. But first about the author. Dimitri Svertchkoff was born in St. Petersburg in 1873. The family Svertchkoff belongs to the old Russian nobility dating back to the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, with its roots in the provinces of Tver and Mogilev… Into his exile, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he had taken with him love for his country and warm affection for everything Russian. In this book, full of emotional drive, he gives us a picture of people taken from all walks of life in pre-revolutionary Russia. All of his characters appear real in their relation with each other, as they move through the pages of the bookÕ. Lovely production with full colour ep maps & colour folding plates. Scarce