A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev is a beautiful Russian dancer who escaped the clutches of the Soviet Union in 1961, despite attempts by the KGB to stop him, to dance …
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Catherynne Valente’s Deathless
It is every weird girl’s most decadent fantasy – being carried off by the Prince of Darkness and fed caviar in banyas; hunting firebirds with …
Gogol and Metaphysics of Russia
When I signed up for the ‘Nikolay Gogol and Metaphysics of Russia’ lecture hosted by Academia Rossica on a Friday evening, I thought it may …
Vera Polozkova Opens SLOVO Russian Literature Festival In London
I cannot imagine a better and more appropriate opening night to the Slovo Russian Literature Festival. Organised by the Academia Rossica, this festival is all …
Ogling more Russian Revivals
Nikolai Gogol – a contemporary of Russian literature’s other greats Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev – spawned a species of surrealist writing that would go on …
A Russian week in London
Another one of my idiosyncratic obsessions is Russia. My attention and interest are simply drawn there. The more I learn of it, the more I …