A selection of the finest stories by this female ChekhovTeffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. T
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a liter
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Seais a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the
