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Tania Romanov
One Hundred Years of Exile - A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia
English · Hardback
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Description
Exiled from Yugoslavia, Tania Romanov¿s family immigrated to a promising future in San Francisco. But her Russian father¿s resistance to assimilation leaves Tania with deep resentment¿and unanswered questions after his death. Serendipity and a descendant of the Tsar catapult Tania on a life-changing quest for forgiveness and redemption.
List of contents
Part One
Chapter 1 A Royal Romanov
Chapter 2 Russia calling
Part Two
Chapter 3 A Determined Daria
Chapter 4 Daria meets her future husband
Chapter 5 Ivan decides
Chapter 6 Turnabout
Chapter 7 Married life
Chapter 8 The other Romanova
Chapter 9 WWI and Revolution
Chapter 10 The Revolution
Chapter 11 Leaving Kulikov
Chapter 12 Flight
Chapter 13 On to Crimea
Map
Chapter 14 Leaving a Homeland
Chapter 15 Lemnos 1920
Chapter 16 Meanwhile in Russia
Chapter 17 The ones who stayed
Part Three
Chapter 18 In Yugoslavia
Chapter 19 Tolya's New Homeland
Chapter 20 Refugees, Again
Chapter 21 An Intolerable interlude
Chapter 22 Becoming American
Chapter 23 Understanding Tolya
Chapter 24 1977 - My First Visit to the Homeland
Part Four
Chapter 25 Two family trees
Chapter 26 Logistics
Chapter 27 Meeting the Amochaevs
Chapter 28 Ghenya
Chapter 29 Russia immersion
Chapter 30 Amochaevskiy is real?
Chapter 31 Backwater capital
Chapter 32 Kulikovskiy
Chapter 33 Serp I Molot
Chapter 34 Unlikely encounters
Chapter 35 Amochaevskiy
Chapter 36 Crimea
Chapter 37 Livadia and the Romanovs
Chapter 38 Evpatoria
Chapter 39 Moscow
Chapter 40 The ties that bind us
About the author
Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women and Never a Stranger, a collection of travel essays. She has won Solas Awards for her stories, and her work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including the Best Travel Writing series.
Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy, before immigrating to the United States. Tania attended San Francisco public schools, and grew up in the city’s Russian community. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, Tania forged a successful business career in high tech, serving as CEO of three companies. She also earned an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and received an honorary PhD from Saint Catherine University.
Tania lives in San Francisco and Sonoma County.
Summary
A vividly intense and personal saga.... It stirred such powerful emotions..."
—Marina Romanov, grandniece of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search for Her Father’s Russia is the story of one woman’s journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. Tania Romanov Amochaev and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. Their shared fate does not lead to mutual understanding.
The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment toward him and her Russian heritage. Decades later, his unexpected death exposes Tania’s open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her father and his story.
A serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives, catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father’s homeland.
Tania’s story proves inseparable from Russia’s, featuring Cossacks who fled revolution, a family who survived Stalin, and a family of royal exiles, culminating in a meeting between princess and peasant.
One Hundred Years of Exile is a moving story of how revisiting the past can bring not only forgiveness and redemption, but something far more powerful as well.
"Romanov has situated her absorbing story exactly at the intersection of history and memoir. It's a wonderful read."
—Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Foreword
Product details
| Authors | Tania Romanov |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Age Recommendation | from age 16 |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Released | 06.10.2020 |
| EAN | 9781609521974 |
| ISBN | 978-1-60952-197-4 |
| Illustrations | Farb., s/w. Fotos, Abb. |
| Subjects |
Non-fiction book
> History
> Biographies, autobiographies
Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales Russia |
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