The Bloody White Baron
The Bloody White Baron
“Hermann Keyserling, a fellow Baltic noble, thought that Mongolia was a natural destination for him. He had a strong impression of Ungern: certainly the most remarkable person I have ever had the good fortune to meet. One day I said to his grandmother, Baroness Wimpfen, ‘He is a creature whom one might call suspended between Heaven and Hell, without the least understanding of the laws of this world.’ He presented a really extraordinary mixture of the most profound aptitude for metaphysics and of... cruelty. So he was positively predestined for Mongolia (where such discord in a man is the rule), and there, in fact, his fate led him. [. . .] He was not of this world, and I cannot help thinking that on this earth he was only a passing guest.1 As Ungern passed into Mongolia he was riding through an other-worldly environment. Sometimes on the grasslands he could look in any direction and see no human sign all the way to the horizon, the blue of the sky like a vast ocean above him, broken only by the flicker of a bird of prey.MoreLess
Read book The Bloody White Baron for free
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
9 / 10
9 / 10
User Reviews: