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history, Russia, Ukraine

Sergei Belyakov on the settlement of Novorossiya

Sergei Belyakov, the historian and literary critic from Yekaterinburg, was the runner-up for the Russian Big Book Prize in 2013 with his biography, Gumilev, the Son of Gumilev. I have yet to read it, but the only mainstream review I have seen, by…

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August 7, 2016
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history, Politics, Russia, UK

[Neal Ascherson on Lev Gumilev]

By pure chance, I’ve came across a review of Elaine Feinstein’s biography of Akhmatova by Neal Ascherson, a former Observer observer. Speaking of Akhmatova’s only son, Ascherson notes parenthetically: The embittered Lev Gumilev grew up to be the ultra-nationalist historian…

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November 23, 2005
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