Arkady Averchenko. Refugees and emigrant years (1918 – 1925): Khlebina, Milenko

The authors of the book for the first time rethink the established myths of the biography of Arkady Averchenko, using little-known press data of 1918-1925, the material of Russian and foreign archives, rare memoirs and epistolary evidence.
Did the writer really threaten the writer in Petrograd? Under what circumstances Averchenko was evacuated from Sevastopol and is it true that he was called to a duel in Constantinople? Why did the book “Dozen knives in the back of the revolution” receive such an odious name? What explains the enthusiastic technique provided by the writer in Czechoslovakia? What were the facts of his death?
Answering these and many other questions, the authors recreate routes, addresses, household details of the hero’s life, ensuring the effect of the reader’s involvement in the events of the old past.
The book is richly illustrated and first introduces political cartoons from the Petrograd magazines New Satyricon and Drum, Constantinople “Zarnitsa”, as well as previously not published by f …

Author
Khlebina Anna Evgenievna, Milenko Victoria Dmitrievna
Editor
Egorova E. B.
Publisher
Dmitry Sechin, 2013