"One Russian's Story" George Sava Hand Signed FDC Dated 1962 For Sale

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"One Russian's Story" George Sava Hand Signed FDC Dated 1962:
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Up for sale "One Russian's Story" George Sava Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1962. 

prolific writer of Russian origin.  Described as a "Russian exile", he

was born George Alexis Bankoff on 15 October 1903. The grandson of Countess

Sophia Sergeyevna Ignatieva and Count Alexei Pavlovich Ignatiev (Russian: граф

Алексей Павлович Игнатьев), the former governor of Siberia, who was

assassinated in 1906 for his perceived role in a plot to overthrow the Tsar,

Sava's life was devoted to surgery and the pursuit of his literary ambitions.

He wrote approximately 120 books under the pseudonyms George Sava, George

Borodin, George Braddon, Peter Conway, Alec Redwood, and others as well as

numerous non-fictional books on surgical techniques under his real name. His

father was a Bulgarian who, at a time when Bulgaria was part of the Ottoman Empire, migrated to Russia. He was a Lieutenant in the White Russian Navy when he

was seventeen. He was forced to perform emergency surgery without any medical

training that saved the life of a comrade which induced him to pursue a career

in medicine and to become a surgeon. He died on 15 March 1996 and was survived

by five children.

"One Russian's Story" George Sava Hand Signed FDC Dated 1962

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