Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era
By Louise McReynolds (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 1999–00) An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational crimes jump from city streets onto the … Continued