CSPAN2 Book TV May 27, 2013
around in western europe. he described how in 1920 he escaped from the bolsheviks in south russia and landed in constantinople, and ten he wrote the following sentence which i'll translate for you from the russian. i began to perform, he said, in the outdoor entertainment guard b of our famous moscow negro -- [inaudible] thom, the own or of the famous maxim in moscow. now, this so surprised me that i closed the book and put it down. i'd studied this period in russian history and culture, i knew something about it, i'd never heard of any kind of a famous black person in russia at this...