Word: frossia
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...FROSSIA - E. M. Almedingen - Harcourt Brace...
...Frossia is the story of a girl who remained. A Russian chronicle of 358 pages, it is a documentary novel as solid and as solemn as a collection of social workers' case histories, formless, agonized, repetitious, linked only by the personality of Frossia, who in turn is kept going by her faith in a Russia that survives revolutions, the Tcheka, the Comintern, and remains the same...
...When Frossia returned to Petrograd after the revolution, she found the city of her girlhood a graveyard. On her first night there she stumbled through the snow to the shattered summerhouse in the ruins of her family home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather...