Vladimir Alexandrov
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The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. After his father was brutally murdered, Frederick left the South and worked as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and-in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time-went to Russia. Because he found no color line there,...
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A brilliant examination of the enigmatic man of whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," who is still revered in Russia today.
Outside of Russia, the name Boris Savinkov is unfamiliar. But in his homeland, Savinkov remains beloved. Notorious in his lifetime, Boris Savinkov was at various moments a terrorist, a government minister, a renowned novelist, Churchill's advisor on...
