
QWhen we met the translator of the works of Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov at the end of March, he was working on this wording: What if Ukraine liberated Russia? He told us: “To attack Russian culture as such is simply to continue, with the good conscience of wokism, the work of Putin. » In this essay to be published on June 3, André Markowicz, born in prague in 1960 of a Russian mother and a French journalist father of Polish origin, questions this Russian culture in order to find there the beginning of an explanation for the war, without ever ignoring the singularity of the former member of the KGB . Thus he notes that the first battles took place on the very territory of The Cherry Orchard of Chekhov, the “most beautiful estate in the world”. Chekhov, of whom he recalls…