Cutty Sark (short story)
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| "Cutty Sark" | |
| Author | Ivan Yefremov |
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| Original title | "Russian: Катти Сарк" |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Short story |
| 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 short story (novel-kind) 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.
[edit] References
- ^ (Russian) http://noogen.2084.ru/Efremov.htm
[edit] 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)
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