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With blood and words

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by Evegenia Iaroslavskaia-Markon

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by Evegenia Iaroslavskaia-Markon
The manuscript, completed on February 3, 1931, anticipated by a few months the execution of the author at the age of twenty-nine, which took place in the courtyard of the isolation block in the gulag of the Solovki Islands. The manuscript – thirty-nine pages written in dense, tight handwriting – was discovered in 1996 in the archives of the FSB headquarters of the Arkhangelsk region. In her autobiography, Evgenia talks about herself, her life, her comrade and companion Aleksandr Iaroslavskii and their commitment in fighting ’til their last breath against the tyranny of the Bolshevik power.

“So, that is my life – the life of a schoolgirl-revolutionary, a student-dreamer, a friend and lover of the great man and poet Alekdandr Iaroslavskii, an eternal wanderer, an iteinreant anti-religious lecturer, a writer for Rul, a street newspaper vendor, a thief with a long rap sheet, and a travelling fortune-teller.”

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Weight 0.165 kg