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Chtenia: Winter 2011

Winter 2011

Cover: Victor Zagumyonnov

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6: Man's Fate Tamara Eidelman

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Literature

13: The Queen of Spades Alexander Pushkin

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson and Thomas Keane
Literature

39: The Fatalist Mikhail Lermontov

:: Translation by Marr Murray and J.H. Wisdom
Literature

50: Ordinary People Mina Musievsky

Memoir

55: Please Accept My Compliments Lady Luck Bulat Okudzhava

:: Translation by Alex Lane
Poetry

57: Lady Luck Mikhail Ivanov

Literary Insert

69: Joy Anton Chekhov

:: Translation by Constance Garnett and Paul E. Richardson
Literary Insert

73: How Auntie Told Granny... Lev Tolstoy

:: Translation by Robert Blaisdell
History

77: Snow Drifts 4 Marina Tsvetaeva

:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Poetry

79: Petersburg Winters Georgy Ivanov

:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Memoir

93: Sunstroke Ivan Bunin

:: Translation by Graham Hettlinger
Literature

101: Childhood Sergei Klychkov

:: Translation by Laura Souders
Poetry

103: Wasp's Nest Alexei Bayer

Literature

125: The Flyer Peter Aleshkovsky

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Literature