The Russia I Lost

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Having left Russia perhaps for the last time, Tatyana Movshevich strives to define her Russian-ness for her children, by reaching back through poetry and music and family narrative, to an unwitnessed past. A rediscovery and a rewriting of her cultural story. Cast Vasily ….. Joel MacCormack Klavdiya ….. Rhiannon Neads Moisei ….. Daniel Rabin Lydia ….. Dorothea Myer-Bennett Lieutenant ….. Greg Kolpakchi Tanya ….. Liza Moody Singer ….. Polina Shepherd Director, Jessica Dromgoole Sound, Pete Ringrose Producer, Monica Whitlock Writer, Tatyana Movshevich Osip Mandelstam's poem 'For the future's children and their fortune' was translated by Sasha Dugdale. Thanks to Sasha Dugdale, Justus van de Kamp, Karen Polak, Itzik Gottesman, Donald Rayfield and Anna Pilkington.