Tag Archives: Yalta

Guest Post by John Pym: A Soviet film of ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’

Nineteen-sixty – with the first movies of the French ‘New Wave’ about to burst upon the cinemagoing world – proved a golden year for the Cannes film festival. The jury included the leading Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and the iconoclastic … Continue reading

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‘Lady with a Little Dog’ (Continued)

III Back home in Moscow, everything already felt like winter: the stoves had been lit, and when the children were getting ready for school and drinking tea in the morning, it was dark and Nanny lit the lamp for a … Continue reading

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‘Lady with a Little Dog’ translated by Harvey Pitcher

I Word went round that a newcomer had turned up on the Promenade: a lady with a little dog. Dmitrii Dmitrich Gurov had already spent a fortnight in Yalta and become used to its ways, and he too had begun … Continue reading

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‘The world’s best short story’: A new translation

Long-term followers of Calderonia may recall my post five years ago devoted to Harvey Pitcher, in a series called ‘Inestimable Russianists’. I quoted Harvey saying at the time (he was then in his eighty-third year) that he was just putting … Continue reading

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Ukrainian journal

27 June 2024 A Russian opposition group called the Congress of People’s Deputies, consisting of over sixty exiled politicians who were once MPs in the State Duma, has met this week in Warsaw to discuss their plan to overthrow the … Continue reading

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A writer-publisher’s Ukrainian diary: 3

11 April 2022 Whilst coming back from the shop with today’s newspaper, I could see a neighbour on the other side of the street who was born at the gates of Mauthausen concentration camp six days before it was liberated … Continue reading

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From the diary of a writer-publisher: 16

17 November 2021 Today at 9.54 a.m. I emailed my 408-line poem Making Icons to the excellent Long Poem Magazine, the only organ in Britain that publishes poems at least 75 lines long. The magazine appears twice a year and November … Continue reading

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