ANNE MARIE JACKSON has lived for extended periods in Russia and Moldova. She is a co-translator, with Robert Chandler and Rose France, of Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi (available as an NYRB classic). Her previous translations include works by Alexei Nikitin, Maxim Osipov, and Olga Slavnikova.
IRINA STEINBERG was born in Moscow in 1983. She emigrated to England with her family at the age of eight and now lives primarily in London. She has a BA in English language and literature from University College London, as well as postgraduate qualifications in law. She started pursuing her interest in translation professionally in her late twenties and was a co-translator of Teffi’s Subtly Worded and Other Stories (2014).
EDYTHE HABER is Professor Emerita of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Mikhail Bulgakov: The Early Years (1998) and of many articles on Russian literature, particularly on Bulgakov, Teffi, and Vladimir Nabokov. She is presently completing a critical biography of Teffi.
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Copyright © Agnès Szydlowski
Translation copyright © 2016 by Robert Chandler and Irina Steinberg
Introduction copyright © 2016 by Edythe Haber
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Cover image: Natalia Goncharova, Rayonism, Blue-Green Forest (detail), 1913; © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872–1952, author. | Chandler, Robert, 1953– translator. | Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947– translator. | Jackson, Anne Marie, translator. | Steinberg, Irina, translator. | Haber, Edythe C., writer of introduction.
Title: Memories : from Moscow to the Black Sea / by Teffi ; translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne-Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg ; introduction by Edythe Haber.
Other titles: Vospominaniia. English | New York Review Books classics.
Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2016. | Series: New York Review Books classics
Identifiers: LCCN 2015043142 | ISBN 9781590179512 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872–1952. | Women authors, Russian—20th century—Biography. | Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917–1921—Personal narratives.
Classification: LCC PG3453.B8 Z4613 2016 | DDC 891.73/42—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043142
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