Andrei Iakovlevich Romankevich Memoir, 1970
Collection context
- Creator:
- Romankevich, Andreĭ I︠A︡kovlevich, 1900-
- Extent:
- 7 items 7 items
- Language:
- Russian .
- Scope and content:
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Romankevich's typescript memoir (8 p.) is accompanied by six photographic slides of churches in Kiev and Shevchenko University. Romankevich was present at a meeting of students at the university in Kiev on the day after the announcement of the tsar's abdication from the throne had reached the city.
- Biographical / historical:
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A law student in Kiev who joined the White Army, emigrated to Poland and practiced law until World War II, was arrested and spent two years in a Soviet prison camp, and emigrated with Anders' Polish army, eventually settling in Great Britain.
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