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 ...

And all these great, patriotic stories that come out on Russian TV, sort of the happy and wonderful and “We’re just going to defeat all the enemies” — I lived in doublespeak world. I live ...

What a fabulous, tangled web is woven in glorious 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet' at Writers Theatre Sung through in the style of an opera, the musical feels driven by a radiant, pulsing ...

At the Writers Theatre, audiences are transported to 19th century Russia by director and choreographer Katie Spelman’s (Communication ’09) production of “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet ...

Ehrenburg, according to the report called on Soviet writers to concern themselves with the problem of anti-Semitism, in the tradition of great Russian writers of the past, like Anton Chekhov.