Gleb Struve  /  Authored Sources 5

Sir, – It may interest your reviewer, your readers, and other students of present-day Russian literature that Lydia Chukovskaya’s The Deserted House (February 16) was to be brought out by the same publisher (Cinq Continents, Paris) towards the end of 1965 under a different title...

When Nikolai Gumilev returned to Russia in 1918, three years before his arrest and execution by the Soviet secret police, he entrusted to a friend in England the manuscripts that have found their way into print more than three decades later. "The Poisoned Tunic...