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On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...
With her production of “Once,” Spelman figured out how to use the mainstage at Writers ... titular great comet of 1812, streaking across the sky and blowing early 19th century Russian minds.
MOUSSORGSKY—Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England—Knopf ($5). Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky—products all of the first days when Russia dared ...
As the Russian ... writers’ books from the shelves — Ukrainian authorities are now canceling all Russian culture, including their own Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who was a great Russian ...
who comment on his latest work on the 'Journey from Moscow to Berlin', which mimics the famous 'Journey from Petersburg to Moscow' by one of the few great liberal writers in Russian history ...
A great many Ukrainian writers, of course, wrote in Russian. Andrii Kurkov (b.1961), the best-known and most-widely translated contemporary Ukrainian novelist, still does, in spite of the agony of ...
Malloy’s eclectic score contains multitudes, the musical styles varying from the (barely) controlled chaos of Russian drinking ... Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" at Writers Theatre.
The Russian Diaspora. Great Compatriots exhibition, dedicated to outstanding Russian writers, poets, dancers and other representatives of culture and science abroad, kicked off in Paris. The ...
The show, with its many Russian names and overlapping ... production of “Dhaba on Devon Avenue” at the Writers Theatre. “It was so, so great,” Patel said. “I think the actors are so ...
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era ... and music remained important to her throughout her life.