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| Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:22PM | | | | The bird in the crocodile's mouth | Tags: Putin; Yeltsin, Leo Tolstoy, Alexei Tolstoy, The Matrix, yacht
| | | | David Remnick opened his interview of Tatyana Tolstaya with Churchill’s famous words about Russia: “It is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma,” and introduced Tolstaya as a member of the great Russian literary dynasty that produced Leo Tolstoy (her great grand uncle), and Alexei Tolstoy (her grandfather). She is the author of the story “On the Golden Porch”, a “literary masterpiece,” Remnick added, and “Pushkin’s Children,” a collection of essays. Tolstaya splits her time between the States, where she teaches creative writing, and Moscow, where she hosts a tv show called The School for Scandal.
Remnick and Tolstaya met in Moscow in 1988 when Remnick was a correspondent for the Washington Post. Boris Yeltsin’s legacy was the first topic Remnick tossed at Tolstaya, reminding... | | | | | |
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