Memories : from Moscow to the Black Sea
Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872-19522016
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Moscow, 1918. Following the Revolution, people are leaving the city in droves - bound for the Black Sea, and from there to Europe and beyond. In late autumn, the celebrated writer Teffi is invited on a reading tour; having elegantly navigated the bureaucratic waters for her visa, she spends the winter travelling from Moscow to Kiev, and from there to Odessa and on to Novorossisk, first by train and then by ship. On the shores of the Black Sea, as Spring arrives, Teffi is advised to go abroad for a time, until things have settled down in Russia. She reluctantly agrees, not fully realising that this would be the beginning of her permanent exile from her beloved country. The great Teffi's memoir of her last months in Russia is, for all its melancholy, marked by her characteristic wit, sense of irony, and generosity of spirit.
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London : Pushkin, 2016.
Collation:
272 pages ; 22 cm
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Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781782271697 (hbk)
Dewey class:
891.7342891.733
LC class:
PG3453.B8
Local class:
891.733
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EnglishRussian
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BRN:
1442407