Robert Byron: First Russia, Then Tibet: Travels Through a Changing World
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, which took a week, Byron was thrown into the tumultuous last years of the…