LarsA Posted 26 October , 2019 Share Posted 26 October , 2019 No guesses as yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 26 October , 2019 Share Posted 26 October , 2019 6 minutes ago, LarsA said: No guesses as yet? I must admit that I haven't the foggiest as yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsA Posted 26 October , 2019 Share Posted 26 October , 2019 His wife (by then former) was succesful in her profession, but never won the highest accolade. Her brother did though in the arms profession in WWI. Colonial Highlander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 27 October , 2019 Share Posted 27 October , 2019 Bloody hell this has taken me hours, missed my extra lay-in with the clock change, not forgetting Strictly, anyway, the way I fathom it... Thomas Fasti Dinesen was a Danish VC recipient in the Great War, fighting with the Royal Highlander Regiment also known as the Black Watch of Canada. He was the brother of Karen Blixen, writer of Out of Africa (pen name Isak Dinesen), ........ that makes the man in the photo Bror Blixen-Finecke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bror_von_Blixen-Finecke To be honest I know absolutely nothing about him and Wiki doesn’t seem to do him justice, if I’m correct, Lars over to you to give us the details. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsA Posted 27 October , 2019 Share Posted 27 October , 2019 Quite correct! I’ll give some more details later today! ATB, Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsA Posted 27 October , 2019 Share Posted 27 October , 2019 Bror Blixen served in the East Africa Intelligence Department in WWI, probably more Scouts than Intelligence work? His medals were issued, but returned. This would have been about the time he went on Safaris with wealthy guests. A good article about him here: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/baron-bror-von-blixen-finecke-swedish-baron-writer-african-big-game-hunter.3196/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 27 October , 2019 Share Posted 27 October , 2019 16 minutes ago, LarsA said: Bror Blixen served in the East Africa Intelligence Department in WWI, probably more Scouts than Intelligence work? His medals were issued, but returned. This would have been about the time he went on Safaris with wealthy guests. A good article about him here: https://www.africahunting.com/threads/baron-bror-von-blixen-finecke-swedish-baron-writer-african-big-game-hunter.3196/ Good one Lars; I was vaguely aware of the names but nothing behind that. Every day is a school day on WiT. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 28 October , 2019 Share Posted 28 October , 2019 (edited) Sorry I could not participate in your latest guessings… have moved my stuff to the new house this WE… funny… most complaints from my helpers came about… all those boxes with books!!! Now only need the electricity back up so that I can either make a warm cup of tea or cool a beer to go with my readings and I'm off… oh yeah… and the Boyfriend will have to move in eventually too … LOL... M. Edited 29 October , 2019 by Marilyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 28 October , 2019 Share Posted 28 October , 2019 Sorry I could not participate in your latest guessings… have moved my stuff to the new house this WE… funny… most complaints from my helpers came about… all those boxes with books!!! Now only need the electricity back up so that I can either make a warm cup of tea or cool a beer to go with my readings and I'm off… oh yeah… and the Boyfriend will have to move in eventually too … LOL... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 28 October , 2019 Share Posted 28 October , 2019 Heard you first time😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 28 October , 2019 Share Posted 28 October , 2019 Haven't we had Dinesen on WIT before? I vaguely remember the references to Karen Blixen. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsA Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 10 hours ago, Ron Clifton said: Haven't we had Dinesen on WIT before? I vaguely remember the references to Karen Blixen. Ron Thomas Dinesen was a subject before, but not Bror Blixen. Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 Here is someone who served as a reservist in the war but not in an army that many of us are familiar with. He was a prolific author but not in a script that many of us are familiar with. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 The moustache and the locks suggest Maxim Gorky. But I don't know that he was a reservist in the Tasrist army after his return from exile (first time) in 1913, nor under the provisional government(s). Either that or it's Kevin Kline in "Sophie's Choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 Kevin Kline in "Sophie's Choice Or a Fish called Wanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 The moustache and the locks suggest Maxim Gorky. Right country. Wrong film ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbem Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 Is this him when a bit older? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 The only other photos that I know of show the outer ends of the moustache turned upwards. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 russian authors… not my cup of Vodka M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 Say again M (post#12282)🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 29 October , 2019 Share Posted 29 October , 2019 sorry… computer was doing some crazy stuff this morning, not wanting to save my replies… probably had it's own idea about them… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 30 October , 2019 Share Posted 30 October , 2019 A novelist, one of whose novels covers a major Russian success around the time of the Somme. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 30 October , 2019 Share Posted 30 October , 2019 Sergei Sergeyev-Tsenksy who I'd never heard of but who wrote a novel about the Brusilov offensive. Which I had heard of but knew very little about. Every day a skool etc etc. Good one Robert, right out of left field as I believe they used to say in the US of A. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 30 October , 2019 Share Posted 30 October , 2019 (edited) Spot on, Pete. I have just finished the novel. Superb! Beautifully written (and translated as 'Brusilov's Break-through'), covering the battle from Brusilov's perspective as well as one of the divisional commanders and a company then battalion commander. Highly recommended. Robert Edited 30 October , 2019 by Robert Dunlop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 30 October , 2019 Share Posted 30 October , 2019 Thanks Robert; when I read his story I was impressed that a prominent Soviet writer could survive into his 80's. There seem to have been several occasions when he was given high awards when it seemed just as likely that he would end up in Siberia. Looking at the casualty figures for the offensive was sobering given the contemporary events at Verdun and on the Somme. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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