Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

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All of the Russian poems used in this book are original translations created for this volume by Boris Dralyuk, coeditor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015) and editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), except for the following: “The Bronze Horseman” by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Stanley Mitchell, used by permission, Stanley Mitchell estate. “Twilight” by Fyodor Tyutchev, translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky in Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology, in the public domain. “My Talent Is Pitiful, My Voice Not Loud” by Evgeny Baratynsky, translated by Peter France, used by permission. “The Gypsies” by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Antony Wood, used by permission. Passages from Notes of an Eccentric by Andrei Bely are original translations for this volume, contributed by Brendan Kiernan, PhD, and used by permission. Passages from Trotsky’s speech “The Fight for Petrograd” from Leon Trotsky’s Military Writings, volume II, speech to the Soviet, October 19, 1919, New Park Publications Ltd. Translation from the Russian by Brian Pearce. Used by permission.

Civil War Russia map by Jeffrey L. Ward

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