The family fortunes unroll under the heavy blows of history. Sasha is repeatedly imprisoned, every sojourn in the Gulag producing a dangerous novel. Soviet anti-semitism appears when his and Anna's son Dmitri divorces his Jewish...
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12 April 1961: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched...
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12 April 1961
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
was launched into space: he remained there, the first human being to have this experience, for almost an hour and a half.
“Yuri A. Gagarin”. International Space Hall of Fame.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
