Elena Govor, My Dark Brother, Sydney, 2000
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Contents and excerpts National Biography Award nomination |
Contents To my son Ralphie Kabo and the young Illins — the Australians
Ken Inglis. Foreword .................................................................... vii Acknowledgements ...................................................................... x Introduction .................................................................................... xv
IN SEARCH OF THE HERO......................................................... 1 Hero and anti-hero.................................................................... 2 Hero and heroine.................................................................... 14
WHAT IS TRUTH?....................................................................... 25 Sow the name... ................................................................. .. 26 St Petersburg tangle.............................................................. 29 Nikolai, Alexandra and Count Tolstoy.................................. 36 Father and son........................................................................ 42 The Tolstoyan Diary.............................................................. 49 ‘A hunted wolf that’s doomed to die’.................................... 55
intermezzo The czarina’s goblet.............................................................. . 61
FROM FARM TO COLONY.................................................... .... 69 Up in the Patagonian mountains........................................ ....70 Patagonia to Australia via Paris and Monte Carlo.......... .... 82 The ‘Cherry Orchard’ on the Atherton Tablelands............. ...90 Working-men’s paradise and ‘the police agent’............. ....101 Little Siberia......................................................................... . 109 Leandro and a Russian colony in the Northern Territory... 122
prelude Untold love story..................................................................... 137
KITTY’S WORLD......................................................................... 143 In the country of the Rainbow Serpent.................................. 144 The Barrinean mystery........................................................... 150 The invasion of a virtual reality.............................................. 154 Kitty’s mob.............................................................................. 159 ‘Black princess’...................................................................... 163 The Russian cultural hero in the Australian landscape........166 ‘I am doing an honest action’................................................ 169
SON AND FATHER.................................................................... 181 On the eve............................................................................... 182 ‘Men die to uphold their principle’........................................ 198 Two ways................................................................................. 215
BUSH LAWYER AND BUSH LAWS........................................ 227 In the bush............................................................................... 228 ‘My dark brother’.................................................................... 238 ‘Good old days ...’......................................................... ........ 245 Leandro on the track of Bill Bowyang............................ ..... 258
FROM UTOPIA, FOR UTOPIA ...?............................................ 267 Utopia on the Stone River..................................................... 268 ‘I have reared an Australian family’....................................... 270 ‘Dick is a man that looks a fellow in the eyes straight’........273 ‘Racial hatred is a poor sentiment’....................................... 282 People’s councillor................................................................. 287 Sunday concerts and the communist agitator..................... 293 ‘Why not the wallaby in Australia?’....................................... 301 ‘My God is my children ...’......................................................306
Epilogue...................................................................................... 325 Appendix 1: List of names......................................................... 338 Appendix 2: Ilin/Illin family trees................................................. 341 Notes............................................................................................ 347 Bibliography................................................................................ 365 Index............................................................................................. 373
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