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Nora Favorov

NORA SELIGMAN FAVOROV has been struggling for decades to figure out the best way to express Russian thought in literate and natural English, a game she considers more entertaining than any crossword puzzle. Her most recent published translation is Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk (Yale UP: 2008). She is associate editor of SlavFile, a newsletter for Slavic translators and interpreters. The name "Favorov" was acquired from her Russian husband, Oleg, whom she met in 1978 during a year-long stay in Moscow. They have two children and live in Chapel Hill, NC.

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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Reflecting on Shishkin
Russian Life: May/June 2013
A reflection on the place of writers in Putin's Russia, through the lens of writer Mikhail Shishkin's refusal to take part in further government literary junkets.
Author: Maya Kucherskaya
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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