Vladimir Alexandrov's Blog
June 5, 2018
THE BLACK RUSSIAN is headed for the screen!
https://deadline.com/2018/05/alexande...
THE BLACK RUSSIAN is headed for adaptation as a TV miniseries (after you click on the link above, please scroll down for some details). The plan is to film it in English, French, Russian, and Turkish to reflect where Frederick Bruce Thomas lived his incredible life and to increase the series' global reach. Looking forward (understatement of the year)!
October 13, 2017
Talk at Brown University about THE BLACK RUSSIAN
October 31, 2017--Talk at Brown University about The Black Russian, sponsored by the Slavic Studies Department, Commons Room, Alumnae Hall, Tuesday, 4:00 pm.
November 28, 2016
Great reviews of Russian translation of THE BLACK RUSSIAN
"Черный русский" ("The Black Russian") included in the list of "55 books you should buy" (30 for adults, 25 for children) at The 18th International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction, 30th of November to 4th of December 2016, at the Central House of Artists, Moscow: http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3144629
The literary critic of "Meduza", Galina Yuzefovich, includes "Черный русский" (Russian translation of "The Black Russian") in her list of "five important non-fiction books of this fall".
Литературный критик «Медузы» Галина Юзефович рассказывает о пяти важных книгах этой осени в жанре нон-фикшн.https://meduza.io/feature/2016/11/19/...
November 19, 2016
October 19, 2016
July 10, 2016
The former slave who became a Mexican millionaire
Here is my review in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (June 26, 2016) of a good new book about a remarkable man and his amazing life, Karl Jacoby's THE STRANGE CASE OF WILLIAM ELLIS: THE TEXAS SLAVE WHO BECAME A MEXICAN MILLIONAIRE:
http://www.pressreader.com/similar/28...
http://www.pressreader.com/search?que...
April 28, 2016
THE NEXT BOOK AFTER THE BLACK RUSSIAN
Pleased to have gotten a one-month residential fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation villa in Bogliasco, Italy, next fall. I'll be continuing work on my new biography: TO BREAK RUSSIA'S CHAINS: BORIS SAVINKOV'S WARS AGAINST THE TSAR, LENIN AND THE BOLSHEVIKS.
http://news.yale.edu/vladimir-alexand...
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February 11, 2016
SIYAH RUS = THE BLACK RUSSIAN, in Turkish
Pleased to have received copies of the Turkish translation, in which I was able to include some wonderful new photographs that descendants of people in Russia who knew Frederick Thomas at the beginning of the twentieth century were kind enough to send me.
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December 5, 2015
New Photograph of Frederick Bruce Thomas
If anyone would like to see a wonderful new photograph of FBT, which had been in a family archive in Russia for the past century, please see the entry for December 4 in the CORNUCOPIA MAGAZINE blog: http://www.cornucopia.net/blog
November 23, 2015
THE BLACK RUSSIAN Returns to Turkey
Very pleased to announce that the Turkish translation of THE BLACK RUSSIAN has just been published in Istanbul.
I'll be very interested to see the reactions of Turkish readers because Frederick Bruce Thomas played a seminal role in bringing jazz to Turkey and was even called "The Sultan of Jazz" when he died.
