Natalya Romaniw is a glorious Tatyana in Scottish Opera’s new show, wonderfully conducted by Stuart Stratford and incorporating extra parts of Pushkin’s novel
His black great-grandfather was abducted as a child and raised in Peter the Great’s court. A new Pushkin translation includes the little-known history of Russia’s Shakespeare
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Anthony Briggs’s new version of the classic verse-novel is the first in English not to Anglicise the hero’s name
Books blog A Pushkin theme park? How about Discworld World, StephenKingLand …