Seven-year old Stepha and his little brother Vanya never mistook their Russian village of Unkurda for Eden, but after the Communist revolution in 1917, they found Hell. The two were among the millions of children cast adrift by a succession of soul crushing events. War, revolution, epidemic, and starvation, all conspire to force even the youngest of them to mature beyond their years. The brothers, armed only with the memories of their dead mother and absent father, vow to do more than just survive. They swear a blood oath to reach their dream or die trying. Their dreama far off place they know only as America.
Russia is in turmoil. Her people have lost faith in their government. Her economy is in ruins and her armed forces are no longer feared. Ethnic and religious rivalries threaten to tear the country apart and world war is coming. The year is 1905. Ikons follows the Pribish family through this maelstrom as they are swept from the squalor of the Pripet Marsh to the deserts of Tajikstan; from the frozen vastness of Siberia to promised land of the United States. Along the way they witness the destruction of monarchies, the horrors of world war and revolution, the empty promise of communism, and the struggle for democracy. "Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker" is first in the Ikons series. Here the reader meets the villagers of Hutawa, Byelorussia―heroes, scoundrels and common folk. Starting with the First Russian Revolution in 1905, the villagers are faced with the class warfare of the industrial age, immigration to America, and the coming war in 1914.
An assassination in Serbia sets off a series of events that draws the world into an ever-expanding vortex of madness. As mighty armies clash, entire populations must either flee their ancestral homes or be ground into dust. Akulina Boriskova Pribish and her two young sons are caught in the center of the madness and with the other villagers of Hutawa, Byelorussia must choose between death as warriors and life as refugees. Here is the saga of a people caught in the horrors of the Great War and the Russian Revolution. From the first heady days of victory, through humiliating defeats and the empty promises of revolution, their experiences mirror those of millions upon whose mighty shoulders future generations would rest.
Russia is in turmoil. Her people have lost faith in their government. Her economy is in ruins and her armed forces are no longer feared. Ethnic and religious rivalries threaten to tear the country apart and world war is coming. The year is 1905. Ikons follows the Pribish family through this maelstrom as they are swept from the squalor of the Pripet Marsh to the deserts of Tajikstan; from the frozen vastness of Siberia to promised land of the United States. Along the way they witness the destruction of monarchies, the horrors of world war and revolution, the empty promise of communism, and the struggle for democracy. "Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker" is first in the Ikons series. Here the reader meets the villagers of Hutawa, Byelorussia―heroes, scoundrels and common folk. Starting with the First Russian Revolution in 1905, the villagers are faced with the class warfare of the industrial age, immigration to America, and the coming war in 1914.
Seven-year old Stepha and his little brother Vanya never mistook their Russian village of Unkurda for Eden, but after the Communist revolution in 1917, they found Hell. The two were among the millions of children cast adrift by a succession of soul crushing events. War, revolution, epidemic, and starvation, all conspire to force even the youngest of them to mature beyond their years. The brothers, armed only with the memories of their dead mother and absent father, vow to do more than just survive. They swear a blood oath to reach their dream or die trying. Their dreama far off place they know only as America.
An assassination in Serbia sets off a series of events that draws the world into an ever-expanding vortex of madness. As mighty armies clash, entire populations must either flee their ancestral homes or be ground into dust. Akulina Boriskova Pribish and her two young sons are caught in the center of the madness and with the other villagers of Hutawa, Byelorussia must choose between death as warriors and life as refugees. Here is the saga of a people caught in the horrors of the Great War and the Russian Revolution. From the first heady days of victory, through humiliating defeats and the empty promises of revolution, their experiences mirror those of millions upon whose mighty shoulders future generations would rest.
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