I translated this short story by Anton Chekhov anew in 2007, and now with a couple of remarks I’d like to share it again via Scribd. Year of Literature 2015 Anton Chekhov – The Joy by Julia Shuv...
I’m presently sitting in the audience at the House of Actor in Moscow watching a play after Chekhov stories. My overall impression is very positive, although there were a few times during the pl...
Fresh from reading a summary of Keira Knightley’s interview, I’d like to say that I, too, haven’t been watching TV on a daily basis since 2008. Even though we had TV sets in our Mosc...
In the first year of this blog I happened to be anticipating the release of Quiet Flows the Don (2006) whereby I was researching the subject and came across Sholokhov’s 1926 manuscript. It was a...
The Joy is a short story by a renowned Russian author and playwright, Anton Chekhov. I have long loved it for its satirical look at the individual’s awe of the press. In those days there was no ...