Andrei Sinyavsky Author

Andrei Sinyavsky (1925-1997) was a writer of fiction and nonfiction. After emigrating to France in 1973, he taught for many years as professor of Slavic studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is the author of The Russian Intelligentsia (Columbia, 1997), Strolls with Pushkin (Columbia, 2016), and many other works. Josh Billings is a writer and translator who lives in Rockland, Maine. His previous translations include Aleksandr Kuprin's The Duel and Aleksandr Pushkin's The Tales of Belkin.