A selection of the finest stories by this female ChekhovTeffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. T
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Seais a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a liter
