Nadiya Surovtsova. Memoirs. Volume 1

Nadiya Surovtsova (1896–1985) was a Ukrainian public figure, diplomat, historian, publicist, and translator who became a victim of the Soviet regime and spent almost thirty years in prisons, camps, and exile. Nadiya Surovtsova’s life is impressive and captivating, and her masterfully written “Memoirs” is one of the most important monumental documents of the era, illustrating the successes and defeats of Ukraine and at the same time exposing the crimes of communism.

The first volume of “Memoirs” contains the first part of her memoirs, in which Nadiya Surovtsova tells about her childhood in Kyiv and Uman, her studies in St. Petersburg, her participation in the Ukrainian Revolution, her life in exile and in Soviet Ukraine — until her first arrest in 1927.