From "A Salad Of Needles"
From "Twelve Portraits Of Famous Russians"
Translations © 1999 by Serge Elnitsky. The responsibility for any errors, inaccuracies, and inadequacies is, of course, mine. The (much-more-expressive) originals can be found here. (In KOI8 encoding)
This page is dedicated to the memory of Roman Scheglov (1965-1995), who (many years ago) introduced me to Averchenko's work.