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Tamara Eidelman

Tamara Eidelman teaches history at one of Moscow’s finest high schools. She is a member of the Moscow and European Associations of History Teachers and works as a radio host on Mayak-24, where she writes the history program, Conjunctive Mood. She has been the magazine's History Editor since 2003. She compiles the Calendar section and regularly contributes, vetts and edits articles on historical themes.

Catherine's Manifesto of Silence
Russian Life: May/June 2013
What led Catherine, in 1763, to issue "The Anti-Prattle Decree"? Who would she need to silence and why?
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Romanov Twilight
Russian Life: May/June 2013
A look back 100 years ago, at the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Romanov rule. Few would have guessed from these celebrations, that the tsar had just four years to rule.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Death of a Tyrant
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
Sixty years ago Stalin died and the Soviet Union was in collective shock. So much has been written about this event that we decided to take a different tack, offering a selection of first person accounts from that time.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Osip Mandelstam
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
A look back at the genius that was Mandelstam, on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his first book of poetry.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Salty Literary Critique
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
In March 1863, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin offered a biting critique of contemporary literature that is as humorous as it is significant.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Sophia Paleologue
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
History offered Zoe Paleologue little hope. Her homeland overrun, her royal pedigree in tatters... And then the Tsar of all the Russias needed a new wife...
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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An Evening to Remember
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
They could not have known it at the time, but they were on the edge of the abyss. Revolution, war, and again war and revolution were just around the corner. But in February 1903, a grand ball was held to commemorate the 290th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Anna Akhmatova - 1913
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
Extract from Anna Akhmatova's "Poem Without a Hero", in which she eulogized the year 1913.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Kozma Prutkov
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
On January 13, 1863, the "eminent poet" Kozma Petrovich Prutkov passed away. Except he never really was alive.
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
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Pitch Dark
Chtenia: Winter 2013

Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
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