He left Russia in 1917, taking his compositions and melancholy genius to America and Switzerland, where he reinvented himself as a virtuoso pianist.
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978057137113601/06/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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MS is an outstanding literary voice in contemporary Russia: here she creates a portrait of three Russian-Jewish generations sifted from the detritus in a late aunt's flat. This book is diff... read more
In Memory of Memory
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Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill and Kathleen Harriman all accompanied their fathers to the Yalta Conference. This is an intriguing account of their involvement and influence on events.
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A new translation of 'First Love' with a handful of other stories. One of the attractive small-format paperbacks from Pushkin Press.
Love and Youth: Essential Stories
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In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Hardback £18.99