HIstory of the Yusupov-Luksiev Family

 From:  "Striking With the Sword of Heaven." 

DMITRI IVANOVITCH YUSUPOV-LUKSIEV a/k/a TZAIMS LUKSUS, FRSA

PART I

Chapter 1

The story begins in the land now known as Russia but the individuals concerned are Viking in the 9th century AD and principally with Luki (Loki) the youngest brother of Rurik (Ulrich) Grand Dukes of Novgorod and Kiev that created Russia having been given the name Russe by the native Scythian chieftains due to the colour of the hair of the Vikings, however, their hair was more light brown or blond and not red.

Fighting amongst themselves, often over the ownership of land. goats, sheep or oxen, the chiefs often called upon the newly arrived, tall peaceful visitors, to be judge and jury and settle any matter.  As a result Ulrich and his Viking crew and brothers became leaders in the land and with Ulrick head of the group was called the Grand Duke Rurik.

Significantly ignored, his younger brother Loki (pronounced Luki), decided to leave since his older brother became arrogant and corrupted whereas Luki was artistic and more bent for life in a monastery.  He also suffered ridicule from his older brothers since they made fun of him being named after the Viking God of mischief and merryment so he left them and with only one of his cousins and a member of the crew that was devoted to him.   They traveled a great distance to a small settlement, a beautiful peaceful hamlet, where he settled giving himself the name Vladik (peacefull). but the villagers decided to name him Vladimir and also renamed their hamlet Vladimir and then regarded Luki as a Kynas (knight/Prince of peace) and because he came from Kiev they called him Prince Vladimir Lukiev.

Luki unmarried at the time, married the youngest daughter of one of the chieftain's and had several children.  Of the boys of the Lukiev line the youngest was always the most gentle and artistic and as the village grew it became the most beautiful village in what was then called Russe.  Meanwhile in Novgorod and Kiev the Grand Dukes  Rurik became very powerful and rich.

In time a descendant, the Prince of Moscow, Ivan (Rurik) was chosen to rule and moved the court from Kiev to Moscow.  He became the first Russian Czar.  Also called the Moscow Czar.

The City of Vladmir became the richest city outside Kiev and Moscow and continued peacefully and untroubled with generations of Luki's line living contentedly and now almost diluted of their Viking blood.  It was at this moment in time that the Golden Horde, which in fact were peaceful young Mongol men seeking wives and land to farm, though looking fierce and adept with bows and arrows hitting targets from the back of their galloping horses, were feared.

Twin boys were born of Luki's line before their arrival and were now ruling, sons of Prince Vladimir.  They had been educated to rule together as equals but one was aggressive and greedy whilst the other was kind and generous so there was a dispute between them and one had to leave. The villagers chose the kind Prince but they looked identical so no one knew which was which other than by their nature.  

While the ruling Prince was away temporarily the aggressive one, furious, gave the leader of the Mongols gold and jewels in payment to destroy the City of Vladimir and kill his brother when he returned but the Mongol refused since the City was too beautiful to destroy and the ruling Prince was kind, generous and a friend to him but said he would set some haystacks on fire so as not to harm any buildings and have his men fiercely ride through the village, pretend to capture his brother when he returned and to whom he would explain the situation and take him to their Khan.

This they did and in the confusion the villagers didn't realize their Prince had been captured. No villager was killed but some were injured in their panic from running and falling and created great damage setting their houses on fire believing the Mongols wanted them so the wooden city of Vladimir burned. The Mongols being very disturbed by this and killed the brother who ordered the raid.

 Chapter 2

Prince Vladimir was well treated by the Kahn and married one of the Khan's daughters.  They went to Moscow before Ivan became Czar.  Among their descendants there were again twin sons born who each had a gentle nature and bonded together.  They became Czar Ivan IV favorite and loyal commanders.  They each had a son the same year that became Ivan's most trusted bodyguards.  

Though Ivan was a kind hearted young ruler when he was chosen to rule, loyal and doing good for the people, vicious attacks and attempts to poison him and his wife by rivals including the Metropolitan of Moscow, the church and hateful Boyars led him to be wary and cautious ordering severe punishments in retaliation.  

Rumors of this from unreliable sources referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible" which in fact was not the case though their doing so made him more dedicated to preserve his people from foreign invasion.

His greatest difficulty was due to constant increases in tribute he was forced to send and finally refused to pay Khan Yusuf, (Sunni) of the Nogay Horde/Nogai Khanate.

Refusing further tribute and receiving a threat of war if not paid he sent his army to lay siege on the City of Kazan and his  two Lukiev guards to escort Kazan's queen to Moscow when captured.  

They successfully besieged the city capturing Yusuf's daughter, Soyembika, the Queen of Kazan, and her son the grandson of Yusuf Khan to be kept hostage in Moscow preventing Yusuf from any future retaliation or demand for tribute.  Yusuf suffered greatly from grief but successors came to friendly terms with Russia.

Hearing of the beauty of Soyembika Ivan desired her as a second wife so had her treated to a splendid river barge decked with the treasures plundered from the destroyed city and had his two most loyal guards stand as her security watch to protect her from harm or the theft of her personal treasure..

Soyembika heard of the horrible cruelty of Ivan and decided never to be his wife so in revenge one night she sent her maid and cousin to call the handsome young guard into her chamber, drugged him and seduced him.

The next night she had his handsome cousin invited in and did the same thereby becoming pregnant.  Not knowing which was the father she revealed this to them before reaching Moscow.  Both now having a greater reason to protect her and the child swore to save her, her son and their own child from any further danger.

When arriving in  Moscow the citizens were stunned by her beauty and called her a fairy princess.  Ivan gave her the most lavish appointments and apartments in the Kremlin but she refused seeing him claiming she was too ill to give him access.  She producing a son and after he was taken she would allow contact with Ivan..

The Lukiev boys immediately and secretly took the boy, a wet nurse and her maid and escaped to Lithuania since they were related to the Boyar of Leituva with land there who left Kiev refusing to serve the Moscow Czar which of course he too was a Rurik descendant and related to Ivan IV.

Their fathers, Ivan's commanders, claimed his two body guards were engaged in special duties and provided the most trustworthy to stand in for them until they could return from Leituva since they knew about the birth of their grandson.   Ivan was too preoccupied with his infatuation with Soyembika that he paid little attention to his body guards, who ever they were, so when the Lukiev boys returned, in due course, they took up their stations as normal.

Chapter 3

Time passed and the baby boy of Soyembika grew up in Leituva as a Lukiev and both fathers outlived Ivan, married and further generations  continued.  Then when Feodor I, the last Rurik in line, became Czar and  the great grandson, Abdul Mirza, of Khan Yusuf, loyal to Feodor, converted to Christian Orthodoxy and took the name Dmitri.  Fyodor made him a Russian Prince and created a new surname from Khan Yusuf.  Therefore Abdul became Prince Dmitri Yusupov who brought all the lands he possessed of the Nogai/Nogay Khanate on the Caspian Sea and the Crimea Khanate on the Black Sea into annexation to Russia.  

Fyodor gave him the fortress lodge and palace that Ivan IV built fourteen miles outside Moscow having a tunnel to the Kremlin where he felt himself safe traveling from assassins in Moscow.

Prince Dmitri Yusupov married a Russian princess from an old Russian Family and had several children that included three or four sons.  The oldest was often called Prince Ivan but died as did all but the last one named Gregory.  Before the first born son Prince Ivan's death in his early twenties he married and had a daughter who married a descendant of Ivan's Lukiev bodyguards and since his Yusupov wife was of greater wealth his name became Yusupov-Luksiev.  The name Luksiev evolved due to the family being often referred to as the Luks or Lukis and even Luksievsky family.

When the first Prince Dmitri Yusupov died he left half his lands, formerly the Nogai/Nogay Khanate, to his granddaughter and her husband Prince Ivan Ivanovitch Yusupov- Luksiev and the other half, formerly the Khanate of Crimea, to his last surviving son Gregory.  

Prince Dmitri and his Yusupov wife resided on their land near the Caspian Sea and seldom ventured to Moscow not being interested in the intrigues of life in the grandiose court of the Czar.   This pleased Gregory being the only Yusupov in the society of the capital.  

Gregory's line thrived in the glamour and society through generations that became prominent in St. Petersburg and continued to manage the Yusupov Luksiev business affairs through their agents of produce, manufactures, resources, timber, textiles and grain production referred to and called the Luksiev-Yusupov lands of which they were.  Slowly Gregory's line removed the Luksiev name leaving them merely as Yusupov land in St. Petersburg documents.

Relatively forgotten the Luksiev name soon was removed  from the records though nothing in ownership changed and continued to flourish on the Caspian Sea.  They also had a splendid villa and large area of land in the Crimea on the Black Sea that was fully furnished and left abandoned since Gregory and his descendants blocked their use of it's habitation and claimed it as theirs but never ventured on or lived in the villa.

When no male heir existed in Gregory's line the daughter and heir, Zenaida Yusupova, inherited and married Count Felix Samarakov-Elston.  His father was supposed to be the son of Wilhelm, King of Prussia but rumor claimed he was the bastard of the Queen and named Felix since it was a name generally given to an illegitimate boy.

The first Count Felix Elston married the wealthy Russian Princess Samarakova therefore taking on her name and her father's title.  Now his son Felix (possibly also illegitimate) did the same and took over the lands and accounts of the Yusupov's.  He was given the military command of Czar Nicholas II personal Imperial Chevalier Guard.

He and Zenaida had two sons that survived, Prince NIcholas and the much younger Prince Felix.  Nicholas was more in temperament with his mother being kind, patient and accommodating to others and being the first born was the heir to the greatest fortune in Russia.  

He knew well about the family history and the Luksiev-Yusupov relatives living on their inherited Yusupov lands near the Caspian Sea who preferred the rural life over the intrigues of society at the Imperial court and the fact it was their line that held all the legitimate rights of the land, even his mother's, being from the first born son of the first Prince Dmitri Yusupov but there was no rivalry between the two lines.  

Felix on the other hand was impatient, greedy and arrogant and if he knew of his cousins on the Caspian Sea he merely regarded them as his own serfs, peasants and Mujiks (slaves) claiming he was the last of the Yusupov line and there being no Yusupov relatives after his brother Prince Nicholas' death.

Their father, however, wanted full control of the Caspian lands and traveled there on his private train with Nicholas and Felix one last time to convince the now elderly Prince Yusuf Yusupov-Luksiev to turn over to him all the accounts and titles so he could eliminate the agents engaged in transacting business for him and therefore saving these expenditures and percentages, keeping more of the profit to be split between them but Yusuf trusted his loyal agents more than he trusted this Prussian manipulator and refused.

Since Yusuf's daughter in law and his younger grandsons including the youngest Prince  Ivan Yusupov-Luksiev, then five years old, were living in the Moika Palace and Yusuf's son also named Yusuf, the husband and father in Kovno, Leituva sent there on an errand Elston invented to get him at a distance to force this transaction against his aging father, Elston claimed he would hold Yusuf's family captive unless he turned over all the Yusupov-Luksiev land titles to him.  

Being forced to save his daughter in law and grandsons he, under duress, signed and shortly after Elston left he collapsed and died of a heart attack.

Learning of this Prince Yusuf Yusufovitch Luksiev returned immediately to his now deceased father's grave and was told by the managing agents of the estate and his family's servants what they over heard that occurred  between his father and Elston.  Therefore going to St. Petersburg to deal with the situation and now having control of his father's estate he  intended to free his family.   Elston only further threatened to kill his wife and his sons if he didn't agree with the forced signed document.

Since Yusuf's family now were living and held in the Moika (Yusupov) palace where his youngest son Ivan was born he reluctantly agreed providing Elston released them all and allowed him to relocate in Lithuania on his and his Lithuanian wife's inherited lands.  She was a descendant of the Grand Duke Vitautis.

Elston agreed but the move and transfer had to be approved by the Czar and not knowing the reason for this sudden move and transfer Czar Nicholas II required Yusuf to leave his youngest son Ivan Yusupovitch with his cousins Nicholas and Felix, as was recommended by Elston as a further reward, pointing out the boy's advantages living a princely life in the Moika Palace, trained and educated as an Imperial Chevalier Guard Courier.

Chapter 4

Yusuf had to agree since although suggested anything from the Czar was an order.  This way he saved his family and was given an important command post in Kovno as the Imperial Minister of Police in Czarist Lithuania.  He felt as long as his son Ivan lived he would be protected by the Czar.  He had four other sons and five daughters.  His family then lived on their land in northern Lithuania near the Latvian border whilst his two older sons took up their given posts under their father's command in Kovno.

The young Prince Ivan being forced to remain when he was six years old didn't know the circumstances having been left alone in the Moika Palace and finding his life miserable, being cruelly treated as a palace servant, but worse by his cousin Felix who called him a mujik and physically abused him when his older brother was absent who if present would prevent it knowing Ivan was in fact superior to them being more Russian whereas they were mostly Prussian, however in 1908 Nicholas was killed in a duel which made Ivan's life more miserable being given extra duties in the worse weather as a courier and subject to greater abuse from Felix.

When twelve years old, having trained a colt his age as his own that his commander Prince Felix Samarakov-Yusupov-Elston admired and had taken from him, he decided to escape.  His best friend his age, Prince Yuryevsky, and his father who knew all the details of Ivan's family other than their move to Lithuania, assisted with the younger Prince Yuryevsky distracting the stable boy so Ivan could take his horse and the father distracting the guards by ordering them from the gates long enough so Ivan was able to ride out bare back undetected.

Heading for his family on the Caspian Sea, not knowing they had left, was told by his family's servants that they left years ago with his father posted in Kovno.  They pleaded with him not to ask for any assistance from them since Elston had warned them should they do so or failed to report his whereabouts they would be severely punished, tortured or killed.

Leaving immediately he first rode to the Village/city of Vladimir were he had ancestral relatives and had no fear of any orders from Elston.  They provided him with a saddle, water, food, blankets, money and clothes and protection to rest for several weeks since he was almost starved and severely injured from his long journey to get to them.  They planned for him a safe route and advised him to travel at night and which inns and monasteries to stay during the day since an order for his arrest with a substantial reward was posted everywhere which would last his entire life or until found by Elston's search party.  

Finally ready for the long journey he set out one brisk evening on his horse resting it for weeks at a time at monasteries.

Elston had immediately reported to Yusuf that his son was a runaway and was to be arrested and returned to him in St. Petersburg as soon as he saw him.  Knowing Ivan, together with his other two teen aged sons, would now be conscripted in the Imperial Regular Army and stationed in the most dangerous battle fronts and under the worse conditions receiving the lowest rank with no chance of advancement for the rest of their lives made them his couriers along with their cousin who was the direct descendant of Soyembika that was living with them.  

They were stationed in Kovno waiting for Ivan to show up hoping he would go there first.  He arrived in Kovno after two years.  He was now fourteen years old and in May he would soon be fifteen.

When Yusuf heard Ivan arrived in Kovno he immediately left for his home in the north so if and when Ivan did arrive at headquarters he wasn't in Kovno. That way he could report to Elston he never saw his son Ivan. 

Ivan was to be immediately placed in the barracks and  conscripted under his father's command as an Imperial courier and all four boys ride on horseback with dispatches for the King of Prussia.  They departed in March with Ivan being given a false name and papers, so he wouldn't be detected.   Yusuf had on that date to confuse the record of their departure recorded a son being born named Jonas (Ivan) Luksas dated May 1912. 

Chapter 5

It was customary in Lithuania to alter names corresponding to the country's language so Luksiev became Luksas, Luksis, Luksys, often written Luksiu and Luksus.  Females were given Luksiene/Luksien as last names.

The four boys, traveling on horses passed through Belarus and Poland without any resistance being of the highest Imperial ranking couriers and after delivering the dispatches to the Prussian king continued on to Switzerland where they deposited their family wealth in a secret bank account.  

Having a sufficient amount allowed each of them they continued to their desired locations.  One of Ivan's brothers went to Paris, the other, both changing their name to Lucas, went to London and manufactured Lucas Lamps, headlights for Rolls Royce, Daimler-Bentley and Jaguar motor cars.  Their cousin, descended from Soyembika and Khan Yusuf, went to Rio di Janiero, Brazil.  They were seventeen, sixteen, fifteen and fourteen years old.

They said their farewells to one another swearing to never be in contact with one another again from fear of being detected through any correspondence.

Ivan took the RMS Olympic having missed her sister ship the RMS Titanic in April on which his first class ticket was transferred and arrived in Boston in May, 1912.

The immigration officer misspelled Luksus as Lukshus but Ivan didn't object having now the name John James Lukshus.  He was 15 years old and settled in Cambridge, and Wooster, Massachusetts with his Russian and Lithuanian relatives.

End of Part One

PART II

Chapter 6

Having boarded the RMS Olymipic in his Imperial Courier's uniform Ivan immediately went to the ship's tailors and was fitted for three suits, black and white tie evening dress with top hats, shirts, shoes and all the fashionable clothing necessary for a well dressed young gentleman with princely charm.

Because of his youth, good looks and being well dressed he became a favorite and was easily drawn into the first class society and especially gained the attention of the Captain being invited each evening to dine at the Captain's table.

For the most part, however, he brooded in his solitary and grievous situation and loss of his family so he preferred to remain alone in his cabin and generally venturing on deck only at night being accustomed to sleeping during the day and traveling at night. 

He had given his horse, before boarding, to an English boy who admired it but was homeless and begging on the streets of London.   He saw himself in this boy.  With the horse he gave the boy £1,000 to properly take care of both horse and himself and his brother took them into his Mayfair house to live and stable his horse in his mews attached.

Arriving in Boston Ivan easily found Cambridge.  He had never met his mother's Lithuanian relatives that settled there before and after the peasants revolt in Russia in 1905 but he had documents proving his relationship and a letter from his father introducing him to them.

Having been accustomed to training and riding horses he needed to be active and not idle about the house and garden.  

His relatives enrolled him at Princeton, since at fifteen he passed the entry exams, under an assumed name, but he didn't stay more than one semester since he already knew more than the college could teach him and was homesick for Cambridge and Princeton had vulgar students and reminded him of his confinement in the Moika Palace, but he continued to wear their black and yellow stripped school tie.

He decided to give lessons in dressage and regular horse back riding lessons as well as train fine bred horses for dressage.  It was really all he knew.  He became well known for this  in the private schools in New England and this led to commissions state wide.

He spoke perfect English, French, Russian and Lithuanian and when World War I broke out he immediately joined the US Army.  He did this for many good reasons but basically against Kaiser Wilhelm of the Elston family of Ivan's arch enemy Count Felix Elston knowing first hand their plot to take the power in Russia and Europe.   Elston's family already ruled in Great Britain but they wanted that country as well staging an assault in the Crimea and attacked Great Britain anyway since the basic trouble brewed between the two parts of that family arguing over sharing the world power.

Instead of being sent to the European front Ivan  now John and for a short time Jonas, was stationed in KoKo Head, Hawaii.  After the war he received his citizenship papers and returned to Cambridge taking up teaching dressage a second time.

Chapter 7

Going cross country many times he gave his last lessons to the boys and girls at a school in Crystal Lake,  Illinois and there he fell in love and married a girl of eighteen named Beulah Maude Wingfield-Raleigh-Driver (de la River-deRiver-Dryver) in 1922.  Their first child, a boy, was named Raymond John, born May 1923.

Beulah Maude had a younger brother Robert Henry a few years younger.  Both were unhappy at the school where their least favorite aunt Cora Love insisted they go since their father Henry Albert Driver was living  alone with his children in Urbana, whilst his wife and their mother was being hospitalized having suffered a, nervous breakdown in 1914 caused by first the death of her father and then her twin sister claiming to have been born first and deprived her of any inheritance from their father.

Beulah and Robert didn't want to go back to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and instead John James (Ivan) took a house in Chicago where Beulah and Robert wanted to live.  Their father was grateful of the kind and generous treatment his children received from his very gentle and kind Russian son in law. Their first son was born in 1923 and named Raymond John.

On January 1, 1932 a second son James Henry was born but in Russia he would be known as Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev son of Prince Ivan Yusefovitch Yusupov- Luksiev.  Never the less Princely titles are really of no importance in the United States of America.

John had totally given up everything Russian and became a real American.  Royal titles became non-existent in America and would soon only be used pretentiously throughout the world or in small societies keeping track of historic relationships especially for inheritance rights.  He especially gave up any association with Russians in America and his only Lithuanian friends he kept were two ex-soldiers he met in Hawaii until he married.

He didn't mingle in society or take up any close friends which was similar to his family on the Caspian Sea and his love of horses was still strong in him.  He actually preferred animals over people and as the years passed he gave up wearing suits and ties.  No more spit shined black shoes and moved onto the prairie land and built a little Cape Cod cottage. He created a little farm with ducks, geese, chickens and planted many varieties of fruit trees and berries.  A large vegetable garden was left for James to tend to.  James added flowers and designed the landscaping starting when he was four years old.  Raymond tended some chores but was mostly involved in the heavier building although all three built the house with no outside help.

Despite royal titles not being used Raymond and James knowing both backgrounds of their parents played one day as English knights battling with wooden swords, rescuing damsels in distress and seeking the Holy Grail and the next day playing at being Russian Princes related to Czar Nicholas II dressed in elaborate Russian Imperial uniforms.  At fifteen and five years old they were not yet aware of any Yusupov family connection. 

They did know that they had a Russian grandfather and uncles and had a Lithuanian grandmother living somewhere in Lithuania.  John must have picked this high dry land West of Lake Michigan since it was somewhat located as was his family home on Caspian Sea but Lake Michigan had very marshy land for miles west so it wasn't in view of the lake but well inside farm lands with thick black soil on top of hard clay and sand to build on.  A two track lane led to it far into the prairie amusingly called Central Avenue and, though only a dirt trail going west, called 85th Street.  The house they built still stands at 8500 South Central Avenue but lost its large second building lot they planted as their orchard and garden.  Although then it was part of Oak Lawn, It is now called Burbank, Illinois.  Today no sigh of the prairie exists.

John was working through the depression so the family was well off considering he lost his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.  Other then those  he worked with his family was all the friends he wanted.

The prairie sprouted more families and then WWII started and at nineteen Raymond enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and became a Military Police Officer.  He was stationed first in Bombay and Calcutta, India but for the most part of the war was stationed with the British regiments in Rangoon, Burma.

Whereas James was educated in the arts Raymond liked team sports but broke his collar bone playing high school football.  He wasn't grossly built but rather tall, thin and elegant.  He was after all Prince Ramon Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev.  The brothers were ten years apart in age so James was 13 when his brother returned in 1945.  His older brother Rsymond died accidently cleaning a German Lugar be brought back from WWII in 1958.

When James was 25 his mother told him he had a younger.  She wanted a girl and because of the depression in the early 1930s his father didn't think he could afford raising three boys so she and his father agreed if not born a girl the boy would be given up in adoption at birth to a family that could provide well for him..  It was a boy.   He was taken by a wealthy Texas rancher and newspaper publisher.  James' mother now told him he should go find him.  How?  No record.  Yet in 1966 both were at the same experimental film festival in New York City, met, became the best of friends and years later realized they were brothers!  His name was Gene Vestel Lott, but his real name was John James Luksus II JR.

Chapter 8

Beulah Maude Wingfield-Spear-(Speere-Spier)-Raleigh-Driver-(de la River-Dryver)-Lukshus had an ancestry from England, Scotland, Wales, France and Savoy.  Her father was Henry Albert Raleigh-Driver and her mother was Mae Wingfield Spear-Driver.

The Wingfield line came from an ancient Saxon family and notable for Sir John de Wingfield, KG who was the advisor to the Black Prince, son of King Edward III and the first English Prince of Wales.  Wingfield resided at Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, England seat of the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk.  A long account of his knightly family is listed in Burke's General Armory of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as in Burke's Peerage.

The Wingfield family is also famous for Edward  Maria Wingfield, first president and governor of Virginia for building Fort James at Jamestown in 1607 and brother in law Captain Bartholomew Gosnel for discovering Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard,, named fory his infant daughter, and Nantucket Island in 1602.  Walter Wingfield introduced lawn tennis at the Wimbledon Cricket Club around 1840.  His original courts still are in use and his history is part of the museum.

Her family arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and were Puritan families related to one another that included Collins, Sanford, Baldwin, Finch and Thomas.  They all migrated west in 1636 and were caught up in the Pequot War before founding New Haven County.  Thomas founded New Haven City, Connecticut from 1636-1638.  All of these families are also listed in Burke's General Armory and Burke's Peerage.

To be continued.........

Note:  This is a draft extracted from the autobiographical- novel: "Striking With the Sword of Heaven."  by: Tzaims Luksus, FRSA .

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