TY - BOOK AU - Tėffi,N.A. AU - Chandler,Robert AU - Chandler,Elizabeth AU - Jackson,Anne Marie AU - Steinberg,Irina AU - Haber,Edythe C. TI - Memories: from Moscow to the Black Sea T2 - New York Review Books classics SN - 9781590179512 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - New York Review Books KW - Tėffi, N. A. KW - Women authors, Russian KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Soviet Union KW - History KW - Revolution, 1917-1921 KW - Personal narratives KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) N2 - Considered Teffi's single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author's last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced. In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile ER -