On February 8, 1837, in St. Petersburg, Georges d’Anthès fought a duel with Alexander Pushkin, whom he shot in the stomach. Pushkin died two days later on his sofa. So … what happened to the sofa?
Malcom Gladwell’s podcasting and audiobook company Pushkin Industries has voluntarily recognized its workers’ union. Staffers at the cash-strapped company — which recently laid off dozens of employees ...
Malcolm Gladwell is laying off staffers from his podcasting studio a year after the best-selling author sparked anger on social media by tearfully pleading with Americans to return to the office.
Two great obstacles confront the non-Russian speaking reader when reading Pushkin. The first, famously, concerns his language. Many is the reader who, after reading a few of his more Byronic poems, or ...
The podcast was formerly part of Spotify's slate but was canceled after eight seasons. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer The show, which has already run for eight seasons, sees Goldstein help people ...
To me the publication of Yarmolinsky’s introduction and Babette Deutsch’s translations of Pushkin, on the occasion of his centenary, is a calamity both in literature and in our cultural relations with ...
Three remote estates in Pskov Region aren’t your obvious tourist destinations but we bet you won’t regret a single minute spent in this picturesque area. Alexander Pushkin may not be as popular ...
On the eve of Alexander Pushkin's birthday RBTH's Phoebe Taplin conveys four scenes from the life and death of Russia’s greatest poet. The creator of Russian literature as we know it was born 213 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ukrainian Government has removed a number of monuments of Russian and Soviet figures from the state register of monuments of ...
It was only a century ago that Russia was the center of world literature. Writers streamed from all over the world to Yasnaya Polyana to bow before Tolstoy, like pilgrims to Jerusalem. And in Russia ...
Rory Williamson has been promoted to commissioning editor, having joined Pushkin Press in 2018 as editorial assistant. His ...
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