Hi AP members. I am new today, found this wonderful community quite by accident and have a feeling I shall be here often!
To introduce myself briefly, my name is Janice, I am 55, English, living in beautiful green countryside in the UK 50% of the time and in hot and dusty old Cairo 50% where my long time fiance is working for a year or so. So it's quite a contrast!
As I am typing I look from my desk from 14th floor over the Nile. You can imagine it is very inspiring, with reed beds on the opposite bank, faluka's sailing by, locals washing pots and laundry in the river...yes, really! which is just as well because I am writing a novel, part of which comprises diaries written 1901 - 1940 and include fleeing from St Petersburg during the revolution.a fascinating part of history and I am so involved in the whole mystique that I must travel to St Petersburg as soon as I can.
The history here is also amazing, I can see the giant pyramids at Giza from my desk, and the steppe and red pyramids at Saqqara as well.
so, my aim in joining this forum is to learn more about the fascinating, turbulent history of pre and post revolutionary Russia. My book is taking far too long to write because I am so distracted in my research! I have read dozens of books on the subject as I must be factually correct although my characters in the book are ficticious.
But I cannot find much information on people's flight from Russia, 1917 - 1920 or thereabouts. The routes, the mode of transport, I suppose much was on foot, horse and cart and by train if you had the money. Does anyone know of any books which cover this in detail please? Olgs'a Story is wonderful, how sad too, but she travelled in the wrong direction, my people are off to Nice!
I look forward to 'meeting' some of you, cheers.
Janice
