Every Slightest Pebble
Clarence Brown, 25 May 1995
The Akhmatova Journals. Vol. I: 1938-1941
by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova.
Harvill, 310 pp., £20, June 1994,0 00 216391 8 Show More
by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova.
Harvill, 310 pp., £20, June 1994,
Remembering Anna Akhmatova
by Anatoly Nayman, translated by Wendy Rosslyn.
Halban, 240 pp., £18, June 1991,9781870015417 Show More
by Anatoly Nayman, translated by Wendy Rosslyn.
Halban, 240 pp., £18, June 1991,
Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle
edited by Konstantin Polivanov, translated by Patricia Beriozkina.
Arkansas, 281 pp., $32, January 1994,1 55728 308 7 Show More
edited by Konstantin Polivanov, translated by Patricia Beriozkina.
Arkansas, 281 pp., $32, January 1994,
Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet
by Roberta Reeder.
Allison and Busby, 592 pp., £25, February 1995,0 85031 998 6 Show More
by Roberta Reeder.
Allison and Busby, 592 pp., £25, February 1995,
Women’s Works in Stalin’s Time: On Lidia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam
by Beth Holmgren.
Indiana, 225 pp., £25, September 1993,0 253 33860 3 Show More
by Beth Holmgren.
Indiana, 225 pp., £25, September 1993,
“... In the late Fifties, in the dusty warren of a Manhattan apartment, the composer Artur Sergeevich Lourié answered my questions about his friend Osip Mandelstam, whom he plausibly deemed to have been by that time irretrievably forgotten. I had turned up at his door out of the blue, led there by an article he had published in an émigré journal. He could not decide which was the more astonishing: intricate questions about a vanished poet, or the questioner himself, a young American speaking army-taught Russian: ‘Someone,’ he said, seeing me off, ‘should write about you ... ”
