Author: Saburova, Irina Evgen'evna [1907-1979]
Title: Korolevstvo Alykh Bashen / Irina Saburova
Description: n.p. [Bavaria], n.p. 1947. orig.wrappers. 21x14cm, 151 pp. Some chips and tears to cover. Pages browned.. Heavily rubbed. Spine heavily chipped & stained. Just Good. ¶ Text entirely in Russian. Author's first book. Published in Bavaria. Authored in a displaced persons' camp in post-war West Germany by Russian exile in, an example of what later came to be called --vid Simon Karlinsky - the literature of the Second Russian Emigration [ "...Indeed, of all the writers from the so-called “Second Wave,” these three (Evgeniia Dimer, Tatiana Fesenko & Irina Saburova) are unified by their common mission to alert the public about forcible repatriation. In addition to being caught behind enemy lines during World War II, these authors were imprisoned in Nazi labor camps and branded with the label of "Ostarbeiter." Aware that Stalin considered all refugees, POWs and DPs as traitors and enemies of the state, they did everything possible to avoid extradition and repatriation to Mother Russia. One would think that once the war was over, these uprooted refugees could look forward to a modicum of respite. Instead they were forced to undergo hardships even greater than during the war...." - Olga M. Cooke]

Keywords: Russian Political History, Communist Russia, Literary History, Exiles, Emigre Emigrant, Nazi Germany, Second Immigration, Displaced Persons, Post-War Camps, Exile Literature