Autographs Don't Burn: Letters to the Bunins, Part 1 - Hardcover

by Vera Tsareva-Brauner (Author)

Three handwritten lines found inside a 1925 first edition of Ivan Bunin's Mitya's Love led to a cache of letters, published here for the first time, written to Bunin and his wife Vera by two Russian emigres forgotten by history. The book presents history in its purest form as narrated by witnesses who lived through Russia's most tragic century.

Author Biography

Vera Tsareva-Brauner is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Russian language and translation studies. Born in St. Petersburg, she graduated from St. Petersburg State University, moving to Manchester, UK for her post-graduate studies. She edited the first full English translation of Yuri Tynyanov's novel Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar and is currently editing a book on the challenges of translating from Slavic languages.