Verochka, and Ionych
Journal: New England review
Year: 2014

Verochka, and Ionych Anton Chekhov (bio) —translated from the Russian by Rosamund Bartlett Translator's Note: The revealing juxtaposition of these translations of stories by Anton Chekhov, both—somewhat unusually—first completed to be read aloud to an audience, came about serendipitously. “Verochka” was the story British author William Fiennes chose to speak about when I invited him to contribute to a series of evenings exploring Chekhov’s prose at London’s Pushkin House, where it was read, with