My father was known as Tzarlie Velval when he lived in Kiev, Russia, where the last name is written first. He came from a long line of military officers, even though very few Jews reached high ranks in the Russian army. Due to anti-Semitism, Tzarlie Velval decided to desert. At this time he was married and the father of a son, Aaron. Tzarlie Velval informed his wife that he was leaving her temporarily to seek his fortune and would send for her and Aaron when he became successful. He spent many years traveling through Europe where he learned to speak many languages. He arrived in the United States in 1912 and changed his name to William Charles. Then he wrote his wife asking her to join him. She refused, and sadly, died not long after that.
Until this book was published in 1974, many of the letters in this book between Charles I Prince Rupert his nephew and the leading Royalist commander had never been published. From a mainly private collection, the letters give a fascinating insight into the stormy relationship between the monarch and his nephew. Also included are letters from the Royalist exiles, including the future King Charles II and letters to and from other notable figures of the time including Queen Henrietta Maria, Montrose and Oliver Cromwell. The period covered by the letters is the turning point of the Civil War and enables the reader to see the War through the eyes of those who participated in it. The letters have been edited in such a way as to illuminate to the full the personalities of their writers and the appropriate historical and personal context to the letters.
Prince Charles and the Art of Transformation: Memoir of an Urban Mystic is one man's journey through darkness to redemption. The author embarks on a literal train journey home to California from Massachusetts where he has spent nine days on a meditation retreat, hoping to reconcile within himself a difficult relationship with his seriously ill father. Charles alone, out of six siblings, is in the unique position to now live with and care for this man with whom he had the most challenging relationship of his life. On his trip back to begin life with his father, we are privy to his memories from boyhood where he was subjected to the dark unpredictable moods of a violent man buffered only by the moral center of this story: his mother. The author also feels the need to understand the supernatural phenomena he has experienced from childhood on. He attributes his sensitivity to being born on Halloween when the veil between the physical world and the non-material world of the spirit is especially thin. Charles is clever and a gifted artist, but time and again his wits and ingenuity take him down many dark roads. Finally, prompted by the spiritual insights culled from the practice of meditation he begins to embrace positive change and slowly releases his rebellion against a father he has learned to distrust and dislike. In his sacrifice of resentment, his perspective changes on his father and it is a transforming experience for himself.
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