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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Yalta

  • In 1920 Stalin turned Yalta filled Yalta with mental hospitals for working class people such as Styopa (previously, it was a popular vacation destination for Russian aristocrats). Like Voronezh, it was a place that the Soviet government sent citizens they wanted to dispose of.
  • In The Master and Margarita, many characters “mysteriously” leave Moscow for Yalta. The first reference appears on page 60: “I spent two hours at Griboyedov's yesterday....Got myself a month in Yalta.” After Woland takes his apartment, Styopa is supposedly in Yalta, and Stepan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev (director of the Variety Theater) also “[takes] a trip to Yalta” (page 108).
Posted by The Runaway Noses at 1:53 PM