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The Long Trek to Solola
by Inga Solonevich
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- The Long Trek to Solola chronicles the life of Inga
Solonevich and her husband Yura (George) from her upper
middle class childhood in Finland and his fleeing Communist
tyranny in Russia, through the difficulties of life in Nazi
Germany, where Yura and his father were welcome because of
their anti-Communist stance, but Inga was not. She tells of
the difficulties of their escape with their young son from
the advancing Russians near the end of the war, life in a
refugee camp in western Europe, then to South America and
New York City. The family finally found freedom, peace, and
happiness on a mountaintop near Roanoke in southwestern
Virginia, where they built a home and an artists' colony.
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- From a mansion in Finland to borrowed apartments or
displaced-person camps in Germany to a country cottage in Argentina
and a four-story walk-up apartment in New York City (as confining to
her spirit as the chains of a dictator), their dream was to live in
a place where mountains and a river meet.
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- The Blue Ridge Mountains and the City of Roanoke, Virginia,
became the goal via a tired station wagon and a home-made trailer,
their last cross-country trek that followed Yura and his father Va's
escape on foot from prison camp in the Soviet Union, and the
family's escape -- via horses, wagon, and bicycles, with six million
others -- from the advancing Russian army in eastern Germany in
1945. They found their Solola, and have lived there for some 30
years.
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- For their 25th anniversary, Inga gave Yura a self-portrait,
saying "I checked in a mirror and I put in every wrinkle." Her
strength and warm spirit shine throughout this chronicle.
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- ISBN 978-0-936015-34-7
- xvi + 250 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, perfectbound
- 50 photographs, 1 map
- 17 sketches by Yura of the trek through Germany
- 12 photos in color of Yura's and Inga's paintings
- LC 92-72621991
- $12.95
plus shipping, per copy
- US shipping and handling -
$5.00, add
$.50 for
each additional book
- International shipping and handling -
$15.00
for Priority Mail International
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