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Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a...
As a Soviet emigre, I find it ironic and sad that the Russians, still trapped in a classic Soviet mind-set of blind trust in official propaganda, are easily manipulated by their current "free" press and "democratic" government. All it took for Yeltsin to win the election was several weeks...
Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men...
"It's a different approach to life. We drink more vodka, we appreciate music more, and we enjoy life more." --Berlin cafe owner and Russian emigre Lucinka Wichmann on the cultural differences between Germans and Russians.
Edited by Nabokov's son Dmitri, the omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for...