About
No Tea For Fruit
No Tea For Fruit is a young girl’s story of the Russian Revolution
Ten years old, political prisoner: this is Pavla Zhiltsova’s coming of age. When World War I breaks out, her father leaves their home in Khabarovsk, near the Pacific, to fight with the army of Tsar Nicholas II on the Western Front. Pavla and her mother go to him across all of Russia when he is wounded, and the family heads east towards home, but their journey turns into a survival saga.
The Zhiltsov Family, c 1915
This first-hand account of the Russian Revolution is seen through the innocent eyes of a little girl. It is a true story that reminds us of the forgotten past, the way war and suffering affect us, not only changing the political climate of the world, but the hearts and minds of men.
No Tea exists to make sure that story gets told.
On this site we will provide publication updates to both the English and Russian versions, opportunities to purchase the book, and more information about the Zhiltsov Family.
- Basil Miller, Site Admin