Kostik (ePub)
Chancing Execution, This Sixteen-Year-Old Escapes to America from Czarist Russia by Himself and Builds the American Dream
(Sprache: Englisch)
Life for the Russian peasant under Czar Nicholas in 1910-and especially the czarina-was not pleasant. Any show of dissent was met quickly with violent consequences from the Cossacks, the czar's not-so-secret police.
Kostik Kopituk, a native of a village...
Kostik Kopituk, a native of a village...
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Life for the Russian peasant under Czar Nicholas in 1910-and especially the czarina-was not pleasant. Any show of dissent was met quickly with violent consequences from the Cossacks, the czar's not-so-secret police.
Kostik Kopituk, a native of a village near Pinsk, Byelorussia, became a bricklayer apprentice in one of the czar's construction companies at age eleven. Over the next four years, he began to consider going to America at the suggestion of his schoolmate friend, Itzahkh Cohen.
Kostik knew that if the Cossacks caught him trying to escape, he'd likely be beheaded, but with his friend, he decided to leave behind his family, country, and culture.
Kostik and Itzahkh somehow made it to Ellis Island, New York, where they split up-never to see each other again. From Ellis Island, Kostik continued on to his destination in New Jersey. He was by himself in America, having just reached the age of sixteen.
Discover what it means to be an immigrant trying to escape a repressive regime to achieve the American dream in Kostik.
Kostik Kopituk, a native of a village near Pinsk, Byelorussia, became a bricklayer apprentice in one of the czar's construction companies at age eleven. Over the next four years, he began to consider going to America at the suggestion of his schoolmate friend, Itzahkh Cohen.
Kostik knew that if the Cossacks caught him trying to escape, he'd likely be beheaded, but with his friend, he decided to leave behind his family, country, and culture.
Kostik and Itzahkh somehow made it to Ellis Island, New York, where they split up-never to see each other again. From Ellis Island, Kostik continued on to his destination in New Jersey. He was by himself in America, having just reached the age of sixteen.
Discover what it means to be an immigrant trying to escape a repressive regime to achieve the American dream in Kostik.
Autoren-Porträt von Rich Kopituk
Richard J. Kopituk, a first-generation American, was raised by Kostik Kopituk-a somewhat stern and patriarchal but loving and intelligent Russian immigrant. His dad's stories always fascinated him, and he regrets not having written this book while his dad was still alive. Kopituk, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a retired businessman, lives in South Carolina with his wife of fifty-seven years.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rich Kopituk
- 2019, 182 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: iUniverse
- ISBN-10: 1532051360
- ISBN-13: 9781532051364
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2019
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