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...exiled Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English language. Well, it’s no Lolita, but John Crowley’s new novel, The Translator, is also a love affair of sorts—a college girl’s love affair with the Russian language, with her poetry professor and with the power of poetry...
...Soviet Union has opened to foreigners. Christa (Kit) Malone, no longer a lonely adolescent girl, makes a pilgrimage to Russia to excavate the true history of her relationship with Innokenti Isayevich Falin, a recently exiled Russian poet. He has vanished under mysterious circumstances—with his life’s work—and Kit has published her translations of his poems under her name. Whatever she unearths about his mystery, it is also her own: Kit’s journey to Russia reconciles her to her own past as much as to Falin?...
Sachs is best known as an advisor to governments in the developing world and in the creation of Polish and Russian economic policies...
...spend a few hours in the Kremlin, a complex of palaces, cathedrals and gardens spanning five centuries (ending with the undistinguished Palace of Congresses from the early 1960s). Beautiful and quintessentially Russian, much of the Kremlin was constructed or laid out by Italian builders at the end of the 15th century. After your tour, walk across Red Square to the massive gum shopping center, one of the many self-confident edifices built during the last Rus-sian economic boom - at the beginning of the 20th century. In Soviet times a slightly furtive place, it now offers a crash course...
...them much more expensive than in London or Paris, though often of lesser quality. But there are also bargains, such as the concerts in the Conservatory, in small palaces, and even occasionally in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum or the Tretyakov Gallery. All cost pennies. If you speak Russian, the superb plays directed by Kama Ginkas at the Young Spectators' Theater are another perfect way to get under this city's skin...