LEADER 03272nam 22004693 450 001 9910160336103321 005 20210901203219.0 010 $a1-101-99351-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001025521 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6052008 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6052008 035 $a(OCoLC)1155986484 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001025521 100 $a20210901d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel $eGrowing up in Communist Russia 210 1$aEast Rutherford :$cPenguin Publishing Group,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (130 pages) 311 $a0-14-312997-X 327 $aIntroduction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's War / by Anna Summers -- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel -- Family Circumstances : The Vegers -- The War -- Kuibyshev -- Kuibyshev : Survival Strategies -- How I Was Rescued -- The Durov Theater -- Searching for Food -- Dolls -- Victory Night -- The Officers' Club -- The Courtiers' Language -- The Bolshoi Theater -- Down the Ladder -- Literary Sleep-Ins -- My Performances : Green Sweater -- The Portrait -- The Story of a Little Sailor -- My New Life -- The Hotel Metropol -- Mumsy -- Summer Camp -- Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya -- Trying to Fit In -- Children's Home -- I Want to Live! -- Snowdrop -- The Wild Berries -- Gorilla -- Dying Swan -- Sanych -- Foundling. 330 2 $a"The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the kitchen tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged"--$cProvided by publisher. 607 $aMoscow (Russia)$vBiography 607 $aMoscow (Russia)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a891.78/4403 676 $aB 686 $aBIO026000$aBIO007000$aHIS032000$2bisacsh 700 $aPetrushevskaya$b Ludmilla$01078086 701 $aSummers$b Anna$01078087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160336103321 996 $aThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel$92589722 997 $aUNINA