White Nights
Penelope Fitzgerald, 11 October 1990
In the beginning
by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kojevnikov.
Hodder, 320 pp., £14.95, March 1990,9780340416983 Show More
by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kojevnikov.
Hodder, 320 pp., £14.95, March 1990,
Goodnight
by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), translated and introduced by Richard Lourie.
Viking, 364 pp., £14.99, April 1990,0 670 80165 8 Show More
by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), translated and introduced by Richard Lourie.
Viking, 364 pp., £14.99, April 1990,
Comrade Princess: Memoirs of an Aristocrat in Modern Russia
by Ekaterina Meshcherskaya.
Doubleday, 228 pp., £12.95, February 1990,0 385 26910 2 Show More
by Ekaterina Meshcherskaya.
Doubleday, 228 pp., £12.95, February 1990,
“... this puts him on the side of the angels, or at least of Hoffman, Gogol, Bely and Post-Modernism. Ekaterina Meshcherskaya, at 85, is said to be the only surviving Russian princess living in Russia. In 1917 her family lost three vast estates, two palaces, their Botticelli Madonna, everything but a handful of jewels. Her mother was lucky to get a job as ... ”