Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya georgian food including work by several great

including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others

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Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya georgian food including work by several greatOne of the few surviving contemporaneous accounts of the Great Purge, Sofia Petrovna is an intense, brave, brief piece of writing composed secretly in a school notebook in lilac ink during the winter of 1939 40. Describing two years in the life of a widow with a son she adores and a job in a publishing house she likes, the genius of the book is the subtle way Sofia Petrovna, and the reader, sees the horror of Stalins Purges unfolding against a