«My soul is in pain and wounded» everyday life in the town of Buzuluk, Samara province, in 1921-1922 in the memoirs of a local teacher

The publication presents an extract from the memoirs of Elizaveta Zhemchuzhnikova, a teacher in the small town of Buzuluk in Samara province, dedicated to the famine of 1921-1922. The author vividly portrays the horrors and miseries of everyday life during that tragic time and shows some strategies that helped her and other locals to survive.