A review by sarahcax
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Anne Marie Jackson, Teffi, Irina Steinberg, Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Memories is made up of thirty-one vignettes Teffi wrote during the Bolshevik Revolution which began in 1917. 

Predestined to have been an incredibly bleak story if not for the compelling characters scattered along Teffi’s journey and her warm and light humour throughout to balance the reality of the suffering and displacement of war. 

A captivating read for anyone interested in memoir of this period in Russian history, from a great 20th century Russian female author who I feel like is mostly unknown outside of the Russian scope. 

“How it warms the soul to discover - amid naked rock, amid eternal snow, beside a cold, dead glacier - a tiny velvety flower, an edelweiss. In this realm of icy death it alone is alive. It says, “Don’t believe in the horror that surrounds us both. Look - I’m alive.”” 
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