May You Live In Interesting Times -- Purported Chinese Curse

 

May You Live In Interesting Times -- purported Chinese curse. In the process of wrapping up my Covid winter project, a four volume family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.

This collection includes hundreds of family photographs and letters, as well as documents from Russia's post-Tsarist Bolshevik government, the Russian White Army, assorted military officials during the Russian Civil War, the French Consul of Constantinople, the British and French Red Cross Missions in Constantinople, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the German occupation government of Yugoslavia, the Nazi Third Reich, the U.S. Military Government of Germany, the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization, the U.S. Displaced Persons Commission, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, and any number of private refugee relief organizations.

First two volumes covering the years 1918 to 1945 have been published by Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. Blue Parrot Books will publish the third volume, 1945 to 1950, July 4th. The final volume, covering the 1950s, to be published this fall by Blue Parrot Books.