Many thanks for your proposal to publish the novella by L. Chukovskaia under the brand of our publishing house. I haven't received the second half of the novella yet since I don't yet have the 84th volume of Novyi Zhurnal. As soon as I receive it (this will be any day now)...

About Chukovskaia: my publishing budget is not impersonal but distributed between individual authors and books. I, alas, cannot, for example, replace one book with another, and even publish a book by scrimping on printing costs for other books. Chukovskaia's novella would...

About Bulgakov’s works: there is no play “Ivan Vasil’evich” in his 1962 collection published by Iskusstvo. But Bulgakov’s Collected Works in several volumes were being prepared for publication in Moscow. I do not know if it was published – or if it is still being prepared for publication...

I am not a fan of Akhmatova’s Requiem: I think, with the exception of a few lines, it is forced, and more importantly, too declamatory: you don’t really believe it. For me, Akhmatova exists mainly thanks to her “New Year’s Ballad,” “Northern Elegy” and “Poem Without a Hero...

Basically, there is more of my editorial work in the edition of N<adezhda> Ya<kovlevna> M<andelshtam>’s memoirs than there is Hayward’s. But… for my work, they have only given me a few copies of the edition and some trivial things...