Join us for the next meeting of our reading group. This month’s book choice is Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, available in our bookshop here. An autobiographical account of Teffi’s escape from Russia following the Revolution, it depicts the acclaimed writer’s experience of war, unrest, violence, hope and exile.

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize for translation, Teffi’s tales of her escape from Russia and her experience as a refugee feel more timely than ever. Her warmth and wit come across as always in her writing, but here the horror of war and the chaos of the post-Revolutionary period are also inescapable. A moving memoir by a literary great.

2021 saw the opening of Pushkin House’s very own physical bookshop in addition to our online store. While it is still being honed and developed, we are keen to highlight literature that inspires, encourages, moves and validates our readers. We also want to amplify the voices, writers and readers that historically didn’t get and, perhaps, still don’t get the visibility, power and appreciation they deserve. Most of all, we want to create a physical (and an online) place for connection where people can come and share their views.