Tag: ‘Mikhail

31 AUG

Mikhail Gorbachev — who survived a coup attempt as leader of the USSR — questioned the ‘future fate’ of the US after the January 6 Capitol riot

Former head of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2017. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev saw the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as a dark omen for the US. The events "called into question the future fate of the United […]

17 SEP

Cinderella at Mikhailovsky Ballet review: The tale comes of age thanks to Mikhail Messerer

Many great dance makers have tried to match Prokofiev’s rather ponderous score but you cannot get further from Walt Disney than the Mikhailovsky Ballet’s latest creation. The curtain rises on a wood-panelled drawing room in a comfortable country gentleman’s home, superbly realised by designer Vyacheslav Okunev. Centre stage is Ksenia Rusina’s stepmother, a red-headed monster […]

25 APR

The Sweetest Debut: ‘Mikhail and Margarita’ Author Julie Lekstrom Himes on Her Novel About Love, Sacrifice, and Mikhail Bulgakov

Welcome to The Sweetest Debut, a new and regular installment in which we reach out to debut (or near-debut, we’re flexible!) fiction, poetry and nonfiction authors working with presses of all sizes and find out about their pop culture diets, their writing habits, and how they explain their books to different people in their lives.  Today, […]