The Writer's Drawing Book: The Russians

by Cathy Porter

This unique drawing book presents more than 75 drawings by some of Russia's greatest writers, ranging from doodles to sketches to finished paintings and graphic works—published for the first time in the West. Witty, lyrical, macabre and charming, they reveal a fascinating hidden side to the Russian creative genius. In addition to a never-before-translated story by Chekhov, there are 64 blank pages for the reader's own use.

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 1995

About the author

Cathy Porter has translated over thirty books and plays from Russian, including The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy and, most recently, Dmitry Bykov's award-winning novel Living Souls.
She is the author of several books: about women terrorists in tsarist Russia, on political art in the 1905 revolution and on Moscow in the Second World War. She has written a biography of the revolutionary Larissa Reisner, and is now compiling a new anthology of Kollontai's writings.