Tchaikovsky: The Story of a Lonely Life
9 hrs. 22 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Nina Berberova
Author
Nina Berberova
Narrator
Ksenia Brzhezovskaya
Narrator
Ksenia Brzhezovskaya
Description
A sequel to the “Outlanders” series: a new cult biography.
In the 1930s, Nina Berberova—one of the most famous writers and memoirists of the first wave of émigrés—writes a fictionalized biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She does not conceal the composer’s hidden life, but she preserves tact and fidelity to facts. Berberova creates a portrait of a living man—a portrait without a mask.
An eternal foreigner, she tells of a Russian composer as if she had never left Russia...
“Whenever I was printing my biography of Tchaikovsky in feuilletons in ‘The Latest News,’ Alexander Nikolaevich Benois would always tell me that he felt I was his contemporary, ‘as if you knew everyone—both Bob, and Modest, and Argo (Argutinsky),’ and then, all at once, caught up in it, he suddenly exclaimed:
— Do you remember, at the premiere of ‘The Queen of Spades’...’—and then he was terribly embarrassed, lowered his eyes, and sang in a thin little voice, ‘What an evening, clouds...’ (The premiere had been nine years before my birth).”
Nina Berberova. “My italic”
In the 1930s, Nina Berberova—one of the most famous writers and memoirists of the first wave of émigrés—writes a fictionalized biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She does not conceal the composer’s hidden life, but she preserves tact and fidelity to facts. Berberova creates a portrait of a living man—a portrait without a mask.
An eternal foreigner, she tells of a Russian composer as if she had never left Russia...
“Whenever I was printing my biography of Tchaikovsky in feuilletons in ‘The Latest News,’ Alexander Nikolaevich Benois would always tell me that he felt I was his contemporary, ‘as if you knew everyone—both Bob, and Modest, and Argo (Argutinsky),’ and then, all at once, caught up in it, he suddenly exclaimed:
— Do you remember, at the premiere of ‘The Queen of Spades’...’—and then he was terribly embarrassed, lowered his eyes, and sang in a thin little voice, ‘What an evening, clouds...’ (The premiere had been nine years before my birth).”
Nina Berberova. “My italic”
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