Translation of: Lestnit͡sa I͡Akova Originally published in Russian: Russia : AST/Elena Shubina Publishers, 2015 Translated from the Russian
Contents:
The willow chest (1975) The watchmaker's shop on Mariinsko-Blagoveshchenskaya (1905-1907) From the willow chest: the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1910) Closing down Chekhov (1974) A new project (1974) Classmates (1955-1963) From the willow chest: the diary of Jacob Ossetsky (1911) The garden of giants (1958-1974) Admirers (1975-1976) Froebel-miss (1907-1910) A letter from Mikhail Kerns to his sister Marusya (1910) One-of-a-kind Yurik: Yahoos and Houyhnhnms (1976-1981) A major year (1911) A female line (1975-1980) Unaccommodated man (1981) A secret marriage (1911) From the willow chest: Jacob's notebook (1911) Marusya's letters (December 1911) First grade: fingernails (1982) From the willow chest: Jacob's letters: volunteer Ossetsky (1911-1912) A happy year (1985) From the willow chest: letters from and to the Urals (October 1912-May 1913) A new direction (1976-1982) Carmen (1985) The diamond door (1986) From the willow chest: the correspondence of Jacob and Marusya (May 1913-January 1914) Nora in America: visiting Vitya and Martha (1987) The left hand (1988-1989) The birth of Genrikh (1916) Endings (1988-1989) A boat to the other shore (1988-1991) From the willow chest: family correspondence (1916) Kiev/Moscow (1917-1925) Yurik in America (1991-2000) Letters from Marusya to Jacob: Sudak (July-August 1925) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1999-2000) Uzun-syrt STP (1925-1933) First exile: Stalingrad tractor plant (1931-1933) Yurik comes home (January 2000) From the willow chest biisk: Jacob's letters (1934-1936) Letters from the willow chest: war (1942-1943) Fifth try (2000-2009) Family secrets (1936-1937) Variations on a theme:the fiddler on the roof (1992) With Mikhoels (1945-1948) Reunion in Moscow (2003) Theater of shadows (2010) Liberation (1955) The birth of a new Jacob (2011) The archives (2011)