![]() ![]() The length of the Volga is 3530 kilometers. The forests hugging the channel give way to wide expanses of the steppe. High shores alternate with cozy sandy beaches. The Volga River flows from northwest to southeast, passes through 15 regions of Russia and flows into the Caspian Sea. The largest and most full-flowing European river has many admirers: Nekrasov and Yevtushenko dedicated poems to it, Repin and Savrasov depicted it on their canvases, films were made about the Volga, and songs were written. He never returned.Summer nature in the town of Konakovo near Moscow on the Volga River. On July 31, 1944, he set out from Borgo, Corsica, to overfly occupied France. Despite being forbidden to fly (he was still suffering physically from his earlier plane crashes), Saint-Exupéry insisted on being given a mission. Later in 1943 Saint-Exupéry rejoined his French air squadron in northern Africa. His classic The Little Prince appeared in 1943. He drew on his wartime experiences to write Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage, both published in 1942. At the beginning of the Second World War, Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions for France, but he went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. ![]() A great success, the book won the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman (Grand Prize for Novel Writing) and the National Book Award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry's next novel, Wind, Sand and Stars, was published in 1939. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York. In 1938 he was seriously injured in a second plane crash, this time as he tried to fly between New York City and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan desert, and he and his copilot had to trudge through the sand for three days to find help. He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service when he returned to Paris in 1931, he published Night Flight, which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina.Īlways daring, Saint-Exupéry tried in 1935 to break the speed record for flying from Paris to Saigon. In 1927 Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby, in southern Morocco, and began writing his first book, a memoir called Southern Mail, which was published in 1929. ![]() There he learned to be a pilot, and his career path was forever settled.Īfter leaving the service, in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions, but in 1926 he went back to flying and signed on as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that flew mail from Toulouse, France, to Dakar, Senegal. In 1921 Saint-Exupéry began serving in the military, and was stationed in Strasbourg. Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the French naval academy and, instead, enrolled at the prestigious art school l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. (The house at Saint-Maurice appears again and again in Saint-Exupéry's writing.) He kept that ambition even after moving to a school in Switzerland and while spending summer vacations at the family's château at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens, in eastern France. He flew for the first time at the age of twelve, at the Ambérieu airfield, and it was then that he became determined to be a pilot. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons on June 29, 1900. ![]()
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