The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho
by
Diana L. Burgin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous."
-Anton Chekhov, writing to his publisher in 1895
Chekhov's...