Teffi : a life of letters and of laughter
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Type of record: Book
Title: Teffi : a life of letters and of laughter
Classmark: Leeds Russian Archive 8750
Creator(s): Haber, Edythe C
Related people: Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872-1952; Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872-1952
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2019
Language: English
Size and medium: xvi, 288 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/653268
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003002839705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
"Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people-- from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin-- and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of 'War and Peace' and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing, and enjoying comparable fame, until her death in 1952. Teffi's best stories effortlessly shift from light humor and satire to pathos and even tragedy-- ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile"--
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