My First Trip to The Homeland: In Search of Abandoned Treasures Behind the Iron Curtain: Travels with Tania

By Tania Romanov

Although fluent in Russian, I have traveled to my homeland only once in my life, in the depressive years of the Soviet Union’s Communist existence. That trip, in 1977, was occasioned by my position as an executive of a supercomputer company whose products were highly desired by the Soviets. As a result, I was allowed to travel to an area closed to tourists, the remote spot where my father was born before the revolution of 1917.

This is the story of that trip into the heart of Russia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Romanov Press
• Release date: Feb 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781732014008

Tania Romanov

Tania Romanov is a writer, photographer, and traveler. Born in what was once known as Yugoslavia, she fled the country with her family and lived as a young child in a refugee camp in Trieste before emigrating to America. Her parents were also political refugees as infants, her father from Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution, her mother from Istria, now Croatia, which was given to Mussolini as a spoil of World War I.

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The Balkans are a tangle many of of us tend to gloss over because we can’t get inside it. Tania Romanov takes us inside it. —Tamim Ansary, author of West of Kabul, East of New York

As she digs deeper, painful truths are revealed, truths that lead her back to the refugee camps of her infancy. —Linda Watanabe McFerrin, author of Namako, The Hand of Buddha, and Dead Love

I devoured Tania Romanov’s Mother Tongue and wish I had read it before going to Croatia. —Susan Cornelis, author of Conversations with the Muse: The Art Journal as Inner Guide

This is a novel of historical and cultural significance. It does a service to every emigrant, to all the displaced persons out there, to the current refugee crisis, by affirming the great value of ‘a melting pot.’ —Gay Wind Campbell, photographer, All Hands Volunteers, and author of Images Par Deux

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TRAVELS WITH TANIA SERIES

A lifetime of travel

I hang from the final limb in a family tree of generations of unintentional travelers—exiles, refugees, displaced people—and know all too well that not all travel is voluntary and that every ship is not a cruise