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Original Russian texts © by Agnès Szydlowski
English translations © 2016 by Rose France except: “My Pseudonym,” “The Gadarene Swine,” “The Merezhkovskys” © 2016 by Anne Marie Jackson; “How I Live and Work,” “Love,” “Ilya Repin” © 2016 by Robert Chandler; “Rasputin,” “My First Tolstoy” © 2014 by Anne Marie Jackson, first published in Subtly Worded (Pushkin Press, 2014).
“Teffi the Fool” © 2016 by Robert Chandler
“A Note on the Texts” © 2016 by Anne Marie Jackson
All rights reserved.
Cover image: Natalia Goncharova, Landscape, Spring, 1926–27; © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; collection State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Cover design: Katy Homans
An earlier version of Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s English translation of “Love” appeared in Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin Classics, 2005).
Published simultaneously in Great Britain under the title Rasputin and Other Ironies by Pushkin Press, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872–1952, author. | Chandler, Robert, 1953– translator, editor, writer of preface. | Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947– translator. | France, Rose, translator. | Jackson, Anne Marie, translator, editor.
Title: Tolstoy, Rasputin, others, and me : the best of Teffi / by Teffi ; a new translation from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France, and Anne Marie Jackson ; edited by Robert Chandler and Anne Marie Jackson ; introduction by Robert Chandler.
Other titles: New York Review Books classics.
Description: New York : New York Review Books, 2016. | Series: New York Review Books classics | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016004093 (print) | LCCN 2016005272 (ebook) | ISBN 9781590179963 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781590179970 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PG3453.B8 A2 2016 (print) | LCC PG3453.B8 (ebook) | DDC 891.73/42—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016004093
ISBN 978-1-59017-997-0
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