Main entry:

Pasternak, Aleksandr Leonidovich, 1893-1982.

Title & Author:

A Vanished Present : The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak / edited and translated by Ann Pasternak Slater.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, ©1984.

Description:

xxiv, 214 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

A Helen and Kurt Wolff book

Notes:
Translation of: Vospominanii︠a︡.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Includes index.
[Table of Contents] -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Early Childhood -- 2. Life in the Wing -- 3. The End of the Wing and the Garden -- 4. The New Flat -- 5. The Moscow of those Days -- 6. In Memory of Marshak -- 7. Transfiguration -- 8. Ice on the Move -- 9. Palm Sunday -- 10. Mushroom Market -- 11. Summer in Obolenskoye -- 12. I'm a Schoolboy -- 13. Safontyevo -- 14. War and Revolution -- 15. A Year in Berlin -- i. In the Old Coriander Shop -- ii. Rügen Island -- 16. Music and Mother's Concerts Again -- 17. The New Boy -- 18. The Metamorphoses of Isadora Duncan -- 19. Bravo, Utochkin! -- 20. 'Signs of a New Immaturity' -- 21. The View from Our Windows -- 22. The Music of the Teacups -- 23. A Last Meeting -- 24. New Changes Lead to the End -- Index.

Summary:

"An affectionate remembrance of a Russian childhood and youth - before and after the Revolution. In this beautifully written and evocative memoir, Alexander Pasternak describes the life of a family and of a bygone age. With an architect's practiced eye, he records the streets, squares, and people of old Russia; with true Russian warmth, he chronicles the intimate life of one of the most cultured families of the dying Czarist empire. There are vignettes of Tolstoy, whose works his father illustrated, and of Scriabin, whose music his mother played on the piano. There are warm and humorous recollections of his brother, Boris, and of his classmate Mayakovsky, and rich memories of houses and markets, carriages, cobbles, and churchbells. This is a book full of the sounds and smells, lights and shadows, of a vanished day." -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

0151933642
9780151933648

Subject:

Pasternak, Aleksandr Leonidovich, 1893-1982.
Pasternak family.
Pasternak, Aleksandr L. 1893-1982
Architects Russia (Federation) Biography.
Architects Russia.
Architects Soviet Union.
Architectes Russie Biographies.
Architects
Autobiografie
Russia (Federation)

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies

Added entries:

Slater, Ann.
Helen and Kurt Wolff book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154817
Call No.: NA44.P291.A2 1985
Status: Available