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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of A Winter Evening by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Martha Dickinson Bianchi.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 13, 2022.-----Pushkin is a well-known Russian author and poet. Bianchi, the translator, was the niece of Emily Dickinson and is best known as an editor of Dickinson's poems. - Summary by TriciaG

Radiospektakl' "Rusalka" po odnoimennoj drame v stihah velikogo russkogo pisatelja Aleksandra Sergeevicha Pushkina. Proizvedenie ne okoncheno v svjazi so smert'ju pisatelja. Istorija ljubvi docheri mel'nika k knjazju, kotoryj ostavil ee radi vygodnoj zhenit'by. V otchajanii ona brosaetsja v reku. Svad'ba knjazja omrachaetsja, kogda nikem ne uznannyj zhenskij golos poet pesnju o pokinutoj devushke-utoplennice. Spustja 12 let, stavshaja rusalkoj, ona zhazhdet otomstit' knjazju....

Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.