A Story of Love, Murder, Betrayal,
& Revolution

A Story of Love, Murder, Betrayal, & Revolution

“A strong, stirring generational tale about a Russian family’s travails.”

“Forget Russia, tells the tale of family, lineage, and sorrows that carry over generations and cross continents. As Anna, an American study-abroad student, visits Brezhnev’s Soviet Russia, the land of her great grandmother Zlata’s brutal rape and murder in a pogrom in the early century, she seeks something of that lost past. Bordetsky-Williams has brought to life indelible histories, from the village of Gornostaypol in 1917 Revolutionary Russia, to 1930s Leningrad, to Moscow in 1980.”

“Forget Russia, tells the tale of family, lineage, and sorrows that carry over generations and cross continents. As Anna, an American study-abroad student, visits Brezhnev’s Soviet Russia, the land of her great grandmother Zlata’s brutal rape and murder in a pogrom in the early century, she seeks something of that lost past. Bordetsky-Williams has brought to life indelible histories, from the village of Gornostaypol in 1917 Revolutionary Russia, to 1930s Leningrad, to Moscow in 1980.”