Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004272, Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:49:22 -0700

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VN 100 in Russia (fwd)
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Dear Sergei,
I just ran across your eport below which I was too busy to
translate when I first got it. Thanks to some indiosyncracies of the
transliteration I'm not sure abut a couple of points: tatru" and the last
paragraph. Help?
And do give my regards to ms. Tselkova.
Best, Don
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EDITOR's NOTE: "Sergey B. Il'in" <isb@glas.apc.org>, the major translator
of VN's English works into Russian, offers the following report on a
Moscow "evening" devoted to VN and the popular magazine "Ogenyok".
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The Evening, organized by the magazine OGONYOK (which is also celebrating
its centenary) took place on the 8th of March in the Central House of the
Artist on the Crimean Embankment.


The MC for the evening was Mikhail PozdnyaÄv.

The evening began with the showing of part of a film "Uzory Kaissy"
written and directed by Igor Lainer. Judging by the piece shown, it is a
documentary about the place occupied by chess in VN's life.

This was followed by the appearances of Sergey Ilyin; the poets--Andrey
Chernov, Dmitry Bykov, and Tatyana Scherbina; the French actress Kamij
Kajol who played Magda in the play "Kamera obscura"; and Mikhail Shul'man,
author of a book on VN). Music included violinist tatyna Grindenko with
the emsemble OPUS POST, and the saxophonist Igor Butman.

ZatĂ„m vystupali – Vash pokornyj sluga, poaety AndrĂ„j CHĂ„rnov, Dmitrij Bykov
i Tat’yana SCHĂ„rbina; aktrisa Kamij Kajol’ (frantzuzhĂ„nka, igrayuschaya v
tÄatru OlÄga Tabakova i sygravshaya Magdu v spÄktaklÄ «KamÄra obskura»),
litĂ„rator Mikhail SHul’man (avtor knigi «Nabokov, pisatĂ„l’»). Igrali takzhĂ„
muzykanty – skripachka Tat’yana GrindĂ„nko s ansamblĂ„m «OPUS POST» i
saksofonist Igor’ Butman.

Zakonchilos’ vsĂ„, kak voditsya, raspitiĂ„m sukhogo vina, rasstavlĂ„nnogo
pryamo po postamÄntu odnoj iz statuj, vozvyshayuschikhsya pÄrÄd zdaniÄm
Doma khudozhnika.

Best, Don