Neighbor on Lavruha

9 hrs. 58 min.

Language Russian

Author Nadezhda Kozhevnikova

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

Nadezhda Kozhevnikova, the daughter of a classic of Soviet literature, became famous in her youth for “revelatory stories” published in thick magazines. In 1981 she moved to Switzerland, where her husband worked for the international organization the Red Cross. She returned to the USSR in 1990, and three years later moved to Switzerland again; she lived in Haiti for more than a year, and now lives in the United States, in Colorado.

Life gave the author—daughter of a classic of Soviet literature—meetings and acquaintances with bright and interesting people, whom she recalls on the pages of this book.

Among them: O. Efremov, V. Kataev, L. Kogan, E. Shlel’s, A. Yurlov, I. Kozlovsky, A. Chakovsky.

Belonging by birth and upbringing to the cream of Soviet society, Kozhevnikova writes with equal enthusiasm in her memoir essays about both the past and the present, both domestic and foreign—successfully overcoming two distances: time and space.