Russian Art and Exile. Part of Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Anne McElvoy, recorded with an audience at Pushkin House, plus Alexander Brodsky's pavilion.
Author Boris Akunin and broadcaster and writer Zinovy Zinik in conversation with Anne McElvoy, recorded with an audience at Pushkin House.
Pushkin House has commissioned a pavilion on Bloomsbury Square in London from the architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, titled '101st km - Further and Everywhere', as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. Anne visits this with Pushkin House Director Clem Cecil.
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in Georgia in 1956. An essayist, historian, playwright and translator, he is best known as the author of crime and historical fiction featuring the 19th-century detective Erast Fandorin.
Zinovy Zinik is a Russian-born British novelist, essayist and short story writer whose books include The Mushroom Picker. Having lost his Russian citizenship with his emigration from the USSR in 1975, Zinik settled down in Britain in 1976.
Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
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Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3's exploration of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its cultural reverberations.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Presenter | Anne McElvoy |
Interviewed Guest | Zinovy Zinik |
Producer | Torquil MacLeod |
Broadcast
- Thu 9 Nov 2017 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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