Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her eventful flight, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg. It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams..

On the train to Kiev, away from the Bolsheviks. And Gooskin the indefatigable organiser gets the author and others out of various scrapes..

Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman

Producer Duncan Minshull. Show less