Writing a memoir is as much about what we leave out as what we include.
This book is about the author's visiting Ukraine, a country of his ancestors, which had emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Ukraine began an unchangeable shift towards the Western world.
Ukraine has its own history, distinct from Russia's, and one that is more in step with Europe than with Russia. I present a brief history of ancient Ukraine, its recorded early history, when Kyiv had a population of 100,000 with masonry fortified walls and gold-gilded towers, at a time when Paris had 25,000 living within a wooden stockade. After these few hundred years, resource-rich Ukraine was invaded and occupied by foreigners.
And more you can find in this book.