Leningrad/American Writers in the Soviet Union
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: June 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781562790059
Subjects: TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; Saint Petersburg (Russia); Description and travel; American Essays; History - General History; English; Literature: Classics; Eastern Europe; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; 20th century; Authors, American; Biography; Glasnost
First sentence: Written into my journal on March 13, 1989, at the end of a month-long stay in Leningrad, is a first draft of the translation I had been asked to make of a letter of invitation prepared by officials at the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Cultural Fund.