Bolshoy Dramatic Theatre, Kazan, in the 1950s Masquerade (MASKARAD, 1835) By Mikhail Lermontov Translated from Russian by Laurence Senelick “My temperament is like Lermontov’s,” declares the antisocial bully Captain Solyony in Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1901). He then quotes a familiar line from a Lermontov poem: “But he, the rebel, seeks the storm/ As if the…
Photo: Astakhova Aleksandra By Artur Solomonov Translated by John J. Hanlon Volume 9, Issue 2 (Fall 2022) Decades from now, no one will believe that Artur Solomonov wrote this astonishing play in December of 2018. A full year before Russia’s foreign agent law was expanded, requiring all individuals and organizations who receive any amount of…
By Olga Ezhova
Translated by Fiona Bell
Sisters don’t lie to each other.
The Mercurian 