- Cutty Sark (short story)
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"Cutty Sark" Author Ivan Yefremov Original title "Russian: Катти Сарк" Country Soviet Union Language Russian Genre(s) Novella Published in Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5 Media type Print (Magazine) Publication date 1944 Followed by "revised version of 1958" "Cutty Sark" (Russian: Катти Сарк) is a novella about the sailing ship Cutty Sark by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov written in 1942-1943, first published in 1944 (USSR).[1]
Intrigued by the history of the Cutty Sark, writer Yefremov produced a sketch about her, which ended with a beautiful version of dry-docking the legendary tea-clipper in USA. When the story was translated into English as well as to some other languages, it is believed that this story 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.
The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.
References
- ^ (Russian) http://noogen.2084.ru/Efremov.htm
External links
- (Esperanto)
Cutty Sark in Esperanto
- (Russian) Cutty Sark (first version) // Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5, pp. 27-35.
- (Russian) Cutty Sark (revised version), published since 1958 (zip, 42,4 KB)
Works by Ivan Yefremov Novels The Land of Foam (1946) · Andromeda (1957) · Razor's Edge (1963) · The Bull's Hour (1968) · Thais of Athens (1972)
Short stories "A Meeting Over Tuscarora" (1944) · "Olgoi-Khorkhoi" (1944) · "Cutty Sark" (1944) · "Stellar Ships" (1947) · "Hell's Fire" (1948) · "The Yurt of the Raven" (1958) · "The Heart of the Serpent" (1958) · "Aphaneor, The Arkharkhellen's Daughter" (1959) · "Five Paintings" (1965)
Non-fiction Road of Winds (1956)Categories:- Short stories by Ivan Yefremov
- 1944 short stories
- Works originally published in Russian magazines
- Story stubs
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