Marian Schwartz

Aug 17, 2023 | nybooks.com | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya |Marian Schwartz |Leah Broad |Jacques Pepin

Mother Russia In Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s latest novel, Kidnapped, Soviet bureaucracy is made all the messier by maternal desperation.

Feb 14, 2023 | undpress.nd.edu | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Marian Schwartz

After these three or four days at home in Tsarskoye Selo—he was born in this palace, he loved it, this was a gilded captivity!—Nikolai had had his clarity of spirit restored—and his humility. He could not fix anything anymore, he was not being pulled or dragged anywhere; all his state obligations were at an end. He had handed them over. No one could come to him with a report, sometimes irritating, or with a difficult proposal that confounded the mind; he didn’t have to agonize over a choice.

Feb 14, 2023 | undpress.nd.edu | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Marian Schwartz

How could you not light up at the thought that you were taking part in Russia’s moments of greatness! While Russia’s future was diving in and out of the hidden swell of negotiations in the Tsar’s train car in Pskov, the engineer Lomonosov was pacing from office to office, from telephone to telephone—taking tiger-claw steps, his boot seeming to grab a piece of the floor each time it separated from it—but mostly to the telegraph, which was still connected to Pskov.