The Flight of Eagles

By Jeremy Moczarski

A century after the death of Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and forefather of Surrealism, when the controllers of this narrative, the empires of Austria - Hungary, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, were destroyed, this story tells of Napoleon Bonaparte's escape from St Helena and violent death; of his heir, Franz, Duke of Reichstadt; of Franz's hidden son brought up in the Vatican and of his son, Apollinaire. Four generations of eagles. Interwoven are stories of the Family of The Cross, of English Kings, Boyars of Veliky Novgorod, who became Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish nobles, and of Fanny Elssler, internationally famous ballerina and beauty of the 19th Century. A history in novel medium.

In 2020 The State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature in Minsk held 'The Kostrovitsky Literary and Documentary Exposition'. 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 took part. Its instigator was Uladzimir Szczasny, Chairman of UNESCO for Belarus, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian newspaper Nasa Niva ('Our Field'), founded in 1906. He described this as "a special book". The author's great-uncle, Karuś Kahaniets (Kazimir-Rafal Kostrovitsky), artist, poet and political activist, was among the first contributors to Nasa Niva, a member of the Belarusian Committee in March 1917 and an organiser of the All-Belarusian Congress held in Minsk in December 1917 that led to the declaration of The Belarusian People's Republic. This Congress was chaired by his brother, Dr. Ambroźy Kostrovitsky, whose eldest son, the freedom fighter Samuel Kostrovitsky, was the author's grandfather. The first editions of this book and the titles 'A Man of Power and a Lioness of The Cross' and 'Poetry in the blood' by this author were featured in this exposition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09T365XH9
• ISBN13: 9798419335103
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"