ODYSSEYA -- An Epic Journey: From Russia to Australia

[Alexander Vassilieff]

http://alexander-vassilieff-odysseya.blogspot.com/

 

A breathtaking biography of a gripping and moving Australian immigrant saga set against the backdrop of ancient and modern Russian history.  It introduces the reader by briefly touching on Russian history, the Russian Far East, Russians in China and in general the Russian Diaspora of the 20th Century along with a touch of Australian flavour and how the author ended up calling Australia HOME. However, the human interest of Alex’s family of Russian colonists is continually brought to the fore through the interweaving of personal accounts, reflection and, an anthropological and forensic application to what he recalls and has been told.

 

Here is what the first assessor said about the book (I wish the person's name was revealed to me)
The author provides an excellent and broad ranging history of the seemingly small events, complex manoeuvres and political shifts that developed and set Russian history and therefore its people in their place as an invariably over-Romanticised often misunderstood, regularly feared and always suffering and highly developed people. Within this vast backdrop the author follows the twists and turns of his own inheritance, his family's exodus out of Russia, their lives moving through the extraordinary societal hierarchies of pre-war China and finally a lively account of their settling in Australia