Andrei Iakovlevich Romankevich Memoir, 1970

Collection context

Creator:
Romankevich, Andreĭ I︠A︡kovlevich, 1900-
Extent:
7 items 7 items
Language:
Russian .
Scope and content:

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:

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.

Access and use

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