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4th November 2014
The writer Aleksandr Griboedov (1795–1829; his name means ‘mushroom-eater’ in Russian) died tragically young: while serving at Russia’s ambassador to Persia, he was killed and his body mutilated when a mob attacked the Russian legation in Teheran. In A Journey to Erzurum, Pushkin describes meeting the cart bringing Griboedov’s body from Teheran for burial in […]
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2nd June 2014
June 1914 saw the publication of James Joyce’s Dubliners. Thirteen years later, in 1927, and it became the book of Joyce’s to appear in Russia, with a wonderful cover design by 22-year-old Georgy Fitingof: The translator was Elena Nechaeva (1885–1966), a former librarian and the wife of the intellectual writer, Georgy Fedotov, who had emigrated to […]
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