A Man of Power and a Lioness of the Cross

by Jeremy Moczarski

The colourful historic origins of a man and a woman and the lives they forged together in Africa (Nigeria, Gambia, Ethiopia, Lesotho) and the Middle East (Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran) against the background of WWII and the Cold War.

On 10 September 2020 The State Museum of The History of Belarusian Literature in Minsk opened The Kostrovitsky Literary and Documentary Exposition, timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the birth of Guillaume Apollinaire.

The National Historical Archives of Belarus, The Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, The National Library of Belarus, The Republican Centre of National Culture and The Predmestie Gallery participated. The first editions of this book and the titles 'The Flight of Eagles' and 'Poetry in the blood' featured in this 3 month exposition.

The Kostrovitski Triptych is a kaleidoscopic tapestry of intertwined stories of Godwinsons, Gediminids, Rurikids, Ostiks, Kostrovitskis, Bonapartes, Habsburgs, Venceliks z Vrchovist (Wentzl) and Lada Moczarskis - from Saxon England and Viking Denmark, Rus (Kiev, Minsk, Muscovy and Novgorod), Lithuania, Poland, France, Austria, Bohemia and elsewhere - from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BMT2P1RY
• ISBN13: 9798365862883
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"