“Alevtina” is a short story by Dmitri Novoselov, translated by Will Firth, recounting a woman’s odyssey through different husbands, lovers and wild turns of fortune whose chaos is highly suggestive of the post-Soviet Russia during which her adult life has played out.
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Photo – Russian graffiti that says “Kitchen and fashion, that’s not freedom” by Quinn Dombrowski/wikimedia commons
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