Moscow Memoirs
by Emma Gerstein
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"In the early 1960s Anna Akhmatova encouraged Emma Gerstein to record her own memories of the renowned Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam. But Gerstein's vivid and uncompromising account was not at all what she had expected. When first published in Moscow in 1998 Gerstein's memoirs provoked responses from condemnation to rapturous praise amongst Russian readers. A shrewd observer, a close member of the Mandelstam and Akhmatova family circles, and a serious literary specialist in her own right, show more Gerstein is uniquely qualified to remove both poets from their pedestals without diminishing them, or their work, and to bring back to life the Soviet 1930s. Part biography, part autobiography, this book radically alters our view of Russia's two greatest 20th century poets, providing memorable glimpses of numerous other figures from that partly forgotten and misunderstood world, and offers several unforgettable vignettes of Boris Pasternak. Gerstein's integrity and perceptive comment make her account compulsively readable and enables us to re-examine that extraordinary epoch." show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Moscow Memoirs
- Original title
- Memuary
- Alternate titles
- Moscow memoirs memories of Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and literary Russia under Stalin
- Original publication date
- 2004 (English translation) (English translation); 1998
- People/Characters
- Anna Akhmatova; Osip Mandelstam; Nadezhda Mandelstam; Lev Gumilyov; Nikolai Gumilyov
- Important places
- Moscow
- Blurbers
- Nemzer, Andrei; Glotser, Vladimir
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 891.71 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian poetry
- LCC
- PG2947 .G475 .A3 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature General
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, Russian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
