title: Sekirin, Peter (ed., trans.). Memories of Chekhov: Accounts of the Writer from His Family, Friends and Contemporaries (review)
abstract: SEER, 93, 2, APRIL 2015 348 Peschio runs through the ‘secret societies’ of Arzamas and The Green Lamp, before concluding with an excellent account of the almost revolutionary nature of Pushkin’s ‘break-through’ work, Ruslan and Liudmila, which is in turn followed by the aforementioned Epilogue. At times Pushkin is a bit player in all this, at times he moves centre-stage; in both contexts the reader gains many important insights into the tiny but influential groups of young Russian men in the sec
journal: The Slavonic and East European Review