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LEVITSKY VALERY (1886-1946) O lyubvi k otechestvu i narodnoy gordosti: Besedy. [On Love for the Fatherland and National Pride: Conversations.] Tsargrad [Constantinople]: Za rubezhom, 1921.

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68 pp.; 20.5×14 cm. In the original contemporary binding. With the original front cover. Oxidation and deterioration of the paper at the edges of the pages, some sheets are separated from the block. Book trade stamp on the cover and some pages: “Bookstore of the publishing house “Russkaya byl” A.I. Chernov, Constantinople.” A rare edition from the first year of the White émigré community in Turkey. The title of the book echoes the title of the famous work by N.M. Karamzin. It includes articles on the Civil War, the Russian army, Russian nationalism, the fate of Russia, and memories of events in southern Russia. Valery Mikhailovich Levitsky (1886–1946) was a lawyer, journalist, one of the leaders of the Kiev City Committee of the Cadet Party, and an active member of the political group headed by V.V. Shulgin and P.B. Struve, participant in the Civil War in the Armed Forces of Southern Russia and in the Russian Army, editor of Denikin’s newspaper “Great Russia,” head of the Information Department of the Russian Army (Wrangel) headquarters. In exile in Czechoslovakia and France, he was a member of Russian national organizations, actively collaborated with the Russian Imperial Military Union (ROVS), and taught at the ROVS Officer School.


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