I took Russia away. Germany

Roman Gul (1896-1986) - emigrant writer, editor, critic, publisher, publicist, memoirist - was born in Penza, in the family of a city notary, studied at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, went to the front, and after the revolution joined the Volunteer Army, Soon he was captured in Kyiv and taken to Germany. In 1933 he was imprisoned in a concentration camp.
Here is the first volume of the memoirs “I Carried Away Russia,” which Roman Gul wrote in the USA. This is an extensive panorama of the vibrant emigrant life of Berlin in the 20s. The author was a participant in the Smenovekhov movement, a member of the Berlin Union of Russian Writers, and editor of the newspaper "Nakanune". He knew everyone, and everyone knew him, he was friends with Alexei Tolstoy, Andrei Bely, Marina Tsvetaeva, Konstantin Fedin, Mark Aldanov, Sasha Cherny and many other Russian poets and writers