One Hundred Years Later: The Testimony of a Rediscovered Diary
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: December 11, 2018, 17:00 – 19:00
Nine-thousand and 88 kilometres. That’s the length of the world’s longest railway, the Trans-Siberian Mainline. At the close of WWI Czechoslovak legionnaires took control of this legendary railroad. Exactly a century later, Ina Píšová, the granddaughter of one of them – Jan Kouba – set off in his footsteps, his diary in hand.
Píšová has written the book Transsibiřská odysea (Trans-Siberian Odyssey) about her journey. She will discuss it and more with two Czech Radio editors who have also travelled the Trans-Siberian Mainline, Ivan Studený and David Šťáhlavský; the latter will moderate the evening.