In May members of the GB-Russia Society enjoyed the opportunity to watch the extraordinary film by filmmaker, music producer and director, Roma Liberov: Сохрани мою речь навсегда. The film, the title of which can be translated as ‘Keep my words forever,’ was created in memory of the life and work of the Russian poet Osip […]
Category: Writers
Book Review: A Ransomed Dissident by Igor Golomstock
When I studied 20th century Russian literature some years ago the name of the Russian art historian Igor Golomstock (1929 -2017 ) came up from time to time, but I confess my recollection of him was rather hazy. So I was pleased when his autobiographical work, A Ransomed Dissident, translated by Sara Jolly and Boris […]
Time for Turgenev
I have been reading The Europeans by Orlando Figes The book traces the story of the relationship between the writer, Ivan Turgenev, and the Spanish opera singer Pauline Viardot. Turgenov wrote that she was the only love of his life, and their relationship fluctuated between the very close to the quite distant over the […]