Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Russia, and Turkey

Molotov's magic lantern: travels in Russian history / Rachel Polonsky.
 A note from 1 November 2011: reading "Sashenka" and searched for Pushkin & travel. Didn't care for Sashenka much, but always intrigued by Pushkin.


Snow. by Orhan Pamuk.
 read article by Elif Batuman in 24 October 2011 New Yorker issue: Natural Histories (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/24/111024fa_fact_batuman)

Friday, September 30, 2011

Stalin terror

Montefiore, Simon. (2008). Sashenka. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Kirkus: deft fiction debut: Inspired by a true story, historian Montefiore turns novelist to profile a young revolutionary who leads an exemplary Marxist life until a romantic misadventure puts her in Stalin's sights.Sashenka, teenage daughter of a Jewish oil magnate, is exiting an exclusive prep school for daughters of the Russian nobility in 1916 when, instead of being picked up by her father's chauffeur, she's arrested by the Tsarist police, who have gotten wind of her subversive activities as "Comrade Snowfox."