Drawing • Painting • Mr. Cummings • Mr. Dobuzhinski5 "Mademoiselle O" Mesures 1936, and The Atlantic Monthly January 1943 | - Mademoiselle and her sleigh ride
- Drawing room • Colored pencils
- Great Dane - Escape to the woods!
- Mademoiselle's hands & tutoring rituals
- Mademoiselle reads to us • Mademoiselle's room • Insomnia • St. Petersburg mornings
- Mademoiselle's insecurities • Lenski v. Mademoiselle
- Reunion with Mademoiselle • Mme. Conrad
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6 "Butterflies" The New Yorker June 12, 1948 | - Morning light • Long distance moth
- Butterfly books
- The demon habit • Ones that got away • No one understands
- More missed opportunities
- Not discovered by me! • Dusk discoveries
- Park entropy • Bog visit • This is ecstasy
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7 "Colette" The New Yorker July 31, 1948 | - Train travel • Overnight to Paris
- Biarritz beach
- Colette
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8 "Lantern Slides" The New Yorker February 11, 1950 | - Tutors • Grandmother sells Batovo
- More tutors: Ordo • Max • Mr. Lenski
- Lenski's boring slide shows
- Lenski fails Econ. • The Insane Volgan • Lenski's numerous ventures
- All tutors at the garden table
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9 "My Russian Education" The New Yorker September 18, 1948 | - Father's bio
- Tenishev school • Fencing and boxing in the library
- The drive to school
- We were resented
- No duel
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10 "Curtain-Raiser" The New Yorker January 1, 1949 | - Cousin Yuri • Lothario • Swing game • Dead at 21
- Headless horseman • Well-travelled lorgnette • Adolescent fantasy
- Braces • Roller rink • Odd discomfort
- Dealing with romantic agitation • Polenka
- Polenka in the river • Train station
- Summer evenings • Young ladies • Sunset
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11 "First Poem" Partisan Review September 1949 | - Pavilion, inspires first verse • Drip
- Verse composition, interrupted
- Verse form impels content, unfortunately
- Imagery for first poem
- First poem, recital for mother
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12 "Tamara" The New Yorker December 10, 1949 | - Tamara's name keeps popping up • Meeting her in the woods
- Seeking privacy in museums, theaters • Published love poems: ouch! • Separate ways • Chance encounter
- Lenin ascends • Train to the Crimea (dropped cane)
- Pangs of exile in the Crimea • Tsiganov brings money and mail • Germans • White army • Games with Lidia • Letters from Tamara
- Tamara's evocative letters • Escape from the Crimea
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13 "Lodgings In Trinity Lane" Harper's January 1951 | - Greece • London • Father shown the fleet • Family to Berlin, me to Trinity
- Kirill • Sergey
- Cambridge
- Russian lit • Ignorant mates • Goalkeeping • Indifference and inspriation at Cambridge
- Falling petal • Revisit after 17 years
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14 "Exile" Partisan Review January-February 1951 | - Indignities of the displaced • Execution hobbyist
- Expatriate Russian writers • Awkward lunch with Bunin • Sirin (naturellement)
- Chess problems • One extremely difficult chess problem (try it here)
15 "Gardens and Parks" The New Yorker June 17, 1950 | - Reflections on the depth of love for wife & child • Origins of human consciousness
- Infant rearing • Freud • Physics
- Certain European parks
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