PUSHKIN'S CHILDREN. WRITING ON RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS

These twenty pieces address the politics, culture, and literature of Russia with both flair and erudition. Passionate and opinionate d, often funny, and using ample material from daily life to underline their ideas and observations, Tatyana Tolstaya s essays range across a variety of subjects. They move in one unique voice from Soviet women, classical Russian cooking, and the bliss of snow to t he effect of Pushkin and freedom on Russia writers/ from the death of the czar and the Great Terror to the changes brought by Gorbac hev, Yelt...[Read more]