Alternative Kinships by Emery Jacob;

Author:Emery, Jacob; [Emery, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cornell University Press

True, we Khrushchevs were aristocrats, registered in the sixth book, and among our legendary ancestors there were many noble men of ancient Lithuanian blood and Tartar princelings. But the Khrushchev blood had mingled with the blood of the household servants and peasantry since time immemorial. Who gave life to Peter Kirillych? The legends differ on this point. Who was the parent of Gervaska, his murderer? From our earliest years we were given to understand that it was Peter Kirillych. What was the origin of the marked dissimilarity in the characters of our father and uncle? There are different versions of this as well. And Natalia was our father’s milk sister, and he had exchanged crosses with Gervaska. . . . It was long, long since time for the Khrushchevs to reckon with their relations [poshchitat’sia rodnei] with their servants and peasants!170

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