Last year the second edition of my grandmother’s memoir, Upheaval was published. It was the culmination of many years of research, not only from sources on the internet, in academia and in libraries, but also from documents which I inherited. Throughout the process I almost constantly wondered and debated about
A year ago the 2nd ed of Upheaval was about to be launched and I was suffering from anxiety. Although I don’t mind speaking in front of people, no matter how many, I’m not the sort of person who enjoys visibility. I much prefer working in the background, doing the
I admit, I never thought I would find anything written by my grandfather which included the Russian Imperial Family. After all, it was my grandmother, Olga Woronoff, formally Countess Kleinmichel, who was known to be the writer in the family. She had written her memoir, Upheaval, detailing her life in
L.M. Montgomery wrote a passage in Anne of the Island (1915) describing letters from years past, which were written by her parents and which Anne was reading, “The sweetness of forgotten things clung to them – the far-off, fond imaginings of those long-dead lovers”. I feel much the same
Have you tried to research your family history, only to find dead ends? Have you tried to build your family tree but only managed to find rabbit holes? Believe me, I’ve been there many times. When I began to look deeper into my grandmother’s memoir Upheaval, which was first published
Having moved more times in my life than I can remember, I never thought I would feel a connection to any one place. I was constantly being uprooted throughout childhood and I continued down this path in adulthood. I could never understand how anyone could stay in the same place,