Larisa, you tell a compelling tale, I can't wait to read more! It's just so sad that many of those talented people had to die tragically and way before their time.
Portia, I liked your comment so much that I wrote mine and I lost it as I lost my essay on Blok. Might be I clicked "Cancel" instead of "Post." Anyway, I will continue because I love all my poets so much like they are my closest relatives. Thank you, Portia for your comment.
Sorry, Hyun Woo for my mistake in the name of my, by the way favorite, Polish composer. As you wrote yourself, his name in Russian starts from "Sh", that is a reason for my slip. My opus was not about Chopin but about Esenin and Duncan, wasn't? Any comments on the theme?
I had no idea Duncan was much older than Esenin. And what interesting times 1910s and 1920s were in Russia. You have Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, and Stalin, all differing a bit with each other. Then you have Mayakovsky and Gorky. They differ too. And there are Akhmatova and Gumilev, Aleksey Tolstoy and Sholokhov, Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov... Wild times, indeed.
Very interesting, and really makes me want to re-read Esenin-thank you, Larisa!
(PS I wanted to comment about the divide but decided to re-read about different poets too, to check my memory, and add to my knowledge-great post, I love when writing sends me digging deeper)
Thank you. Divide was huge. The first great writer who left & later got the Noble Prize was Ivan Bunin, the other, from Nabokov's family, Vl. Nabokov and so on.
Larisa, I like reading your work. I know so little about Russia.
Thank you, Berthe Rene-Luke. I am delighted to let you know my former country because it's a beautiful country with the wrong people at power.
Really nicely written, Larisa. Thank you!
Thank you for your interest in my writing.
Larisa, you tell a compelling tale, I can't wait to read more! It's just so sad that many of those talented people had to die tragically and way before their time.
Portia, I liked your comment so much that I wrote mine and I lost it as I lost my essay on Blok. Might be I clicked "Cancel" instead of "Post." Anyway, I will continue because I love all my poets so much like they are my closest relatives. Thank you, Portia for your comment.
Hi Larisa, this is a very unimportant comment, but Шопен is spelled Chopin as French would write it. Hope you don't mind!
Sorry, Hyun Woo for my mistake in the name of my, by the way favorite, Polish composer. As you wrote yourself, his name in Russian starts from "Sh", that is a reason for my slip. My opus was not about Chopin but about Esenin and Duncan, wasn't? Any comments on the theme?
I had no idea Duncan was much older than Esenin. And what interesting times 1910s and 1920s were in Russia. You have Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, and Stalin, all differing a bit with each other. Then you have Mayakovsky and Gorky. They differ too. And there are Akhmatova and Gumilev, Aleksey Tolstoy and Sholokhov, Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov... Wild times, indeed.
Very interesting, and really makes me want to re-read Esenin-thank you, Larisa!
(PS I wanted to comment about the divide but decided to re-read about different poets too, to check my memory, and add to my knowledge-great post, I love when writing sends me digging deeper)
Thank you. Divide was huge. The first great writer who left & later got the Noble Prize was Ivan Bunin, the other, from Nabokov's family, Vl. Nabokov and so on.