Collage by Lizzie Gill. Source photograph of Maria Stepanova by Andrey Natotsinsky. Other source material © Alamy; ITAR-TASS; Ivan Vdovin; Alexander Mitrofanov; Alan Gignoux; John Frost Newspapers; Russian State Library; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Petr Pavlov; and KGIOP
Discussed in this essay:
In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova. Translated by Sasha Dugdale. New Directions. 432 pages. $19.95.
War of the Beasts and the Animals, by Maria Stepanova. Translated and with a foreword by Sasha Dugdale. Bloodaxe Books. 128 pages. $18.95.
The Voice Over: Poems and Essays, by Maria Stepanova. Edited by Irina Shevelenko. Columbia University Press. 360 pages. $40.
During the 2014 crisis in Ukraine, one of the more flamboyant separatist factions was led by a Russian named Igor Girkin, better known by his nom de guerre, Strelkov (“Shooter”). An…
