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Book of the Week: Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Tracy Ann Oberman

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Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea: Episode 3

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Kiev is reached on a sunny day, but many here are dreading the arrival of Petlyura.

Arrival in Kiev, with its sunny days and familiar faces, but a scourge of White Russians is approaching. When will Petlyura get here?

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, which is newly translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams:

Arrival in Kiev, with its sunny days and familiar faces, but a scourge of White Russians is approaching. When will Petlyura get here?

Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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The story of Russian writer Teffi's eventful flight from her home country.

The story of Russian writer Teffi's eventful flight from her home country. Abridged for radio by Katrin Williams. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman

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