Being Turgenev

by Tamara Eidelman
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translation Nora Seligman Favorov

Everyone in Russia knows the great writer Ivan Turgenev, whose 200th birthday is today, and they make his acquaintance in three stages.

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The 22 heroes in this volume were all born in 1917 – Russia’s year of revolution. They lived through Civil War, Collectivization, World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of the USSR. Indeed, their lives are a living reflection of the past Russian century, and their stories show us a side of history not available in any other resource.

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1980: Andrei Sakharov arrested and exiled to Gorky (present-day Nizhny Novgorod) for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1904: George Balanchine, choreographer, born

1558: Russian troops cross the border into Livonia, beginning one of the longest wars in Russian history (1558-1583).

1440: Ivan III the Great, Grand Duke of Muscovy, was born.

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