Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History by Józef Czapski war The photographs

The photographs

for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity

The Man Who Couldn't Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia's modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions

Автору удалось в небольшой по объему книге дать развернутую картину трагедии русской аристократии после крушения империи - фактического уничтожения целого класса в результате советского террора

Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History by Józef Czapski war The photographs'What distinguishes Memories of Starobielsk and deepens our understanding of the events Czapski lived through is the vision he imparts of a Europe that the Soviets (and the Nazis) had attempted to destroy. . . . Memories of Starobielsk shows the victims not as soldiers but as doctors, professors, engineers, writers, translatorspeople of education and character, products of a civilization that Stalinism could not accommodate' Philip . Ceallaigh, Los