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Russia in war and revolution : the memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff
Olferieff, Fyodor Sergeyevich, 1885-1971Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2021]Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified-and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
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Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff papers, 1785-1981
Olferieff, Fyodor Sergeyevich, 1885-1971Biographical materials on Olferieff and his wife, original manuscript of his memoirs, photographs depicting members of the Olferʹev family in Russia and California, and memorabilia, such as an icon presented to Olferʹev on the 50th anniversary of his service in the Horse Grenadiers. Printed matter in the collection includes an account of the Alfer'ev (Olferʹev) family in the XV-XVII centuries and the second volume of Istorii͡a leĭb-gvardii konno-grenaderskago polka (St. Petersburg, 1903), which chronicles the history of the Life Guard Horse Grenadier Regiment from 1803 to 1814.
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Russia in war and revolution : the memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff
Olferieff, Fyodor Sergeyevich, 1885-1971Stanford California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2021]Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified-and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
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