A Twentieth-Century Russian Story with a Happy Ending
October 15
Abbess Theodosia (Baranov) passed away on this day in 1988.
A friend of mine, Alexandra (Shurochka) Kargina, who grew up in a White Russian emigre family in California, once told me that when the Italian part of her family used to get together it would be all joie de vivre. Whenever her Russian family was having a party they would talk and weep. I guess…
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