My book about the siege of Leningrad will be published by Asterion Publishing House in St Petersburg on September 8 th 2021, to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the siege. “В мире, где жадность, эгоизм и цинизм часто почитаются ивознаграждаются, блокада Ленинграда навсегда останется свидетельством того, на что способны люди перед лицом […]

Out now: My Cossack Family - and other remarkable people in Russia and Ukraine By Caroline Walton. Sirin books May 2019 “Where there was the holodomor, there was my grandfather-in-law Petro who forgave everything. Where there was the gulag, there were people such as de Beausobre who made it her personal Calvary. And where there […]

The news cycle rarely passes these days without negative news of Russia and, sadly for the people of that region, Ukraine. What about the people? Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Caroline Walton (@carolineski) who, during three decades of visiting Russia and Ukraine, met some exceptional women and men, people who had known famine, war […]