Cutty Sark (short story)
"Cutty Sark" | |||
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Short story by Ivan Yefremov | |||
Original title | Template:Lang-ru | ||
Country | Soviet Union | ||
Language | Russian | ||
Genre(s) | Novella | ||
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Published in | Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5 | ||
Media type | Print (magazine) | ||
Publication date | 1944 | ||
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"Cutty Sark" (Template:Lang-ru) is a novella about the sailing ship Cutty Sark by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov. It was written in 1942-1943 and first published in the USSR in 1944.[1]
Intrigued by the history of the Cutty Sark, Yefremov produced a sketch about her, which ended with a beautiful version of dry-docking the legendary tea clipper in the United States. The story was translated into English and other languages. Yefremov's story may have influenced the preservation of the Cutty Sark,[1] which was reconstructed and dry-docked in Greenwich, London, 1954.
The feedback from English-speaking readers forced Yefremov to "upgrade" the storyline with some new facts from clipper's life.[1]
The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.
References
- ^ a b c Konstantinov, Andrei. Светозарный мост (о жизни, творчестве и идейном наследии И.А. Ефремова) [Radiant Bridge: The Life, Work and Intellectual Heritage of I. A. Yefremov] (in Russian). Retrieved June 19, 2013.
External links
- Template:Eo icon Cutty Sark in Esperanto
- Template:Ru icon Cutty Sark (first version) // Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5, pp. 27–35.
- Template:Ru icon Cutty Sark (revised version), published since 1958 (zip, 42,4 KB)