From Bessarabia To...

On the background of the history's dramatic events (the final years of Bessarabia within the Kingdom of Romania, the inclusion of Moldavia into the USSR, World War Two, and the Soviet years after the war), a personal drama of the author's life evolves: his study in a Kishinev gymnasium, repressions within the family upon the Soviets' arrival, escape from the warzone at the beginning of the war, evacuation to Kazakhstan, return to Kishinev after the war, a study in the medical school, work as a doctor in a remote Moldavian village, a move to the central Russia, imprisonment, and new times arrival leading to emigration to the USA.