In 2023 Figes' debut play, The Oyster Problem, was produced by the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. The play is about the financial crisis of the writer Gustave Flaubert in the last years of his life and the attempts of his literary friends, George Sand, Emile Zola and Ivan Turgenev, to find him a sinecure. Bob Barrett played the part of Flaubert and Philip Wilson directed. [51] Everything Theatre described The Oyster Problem as "a remarkable pearl of a play; a patchwork of anecdotes that welcomes us into the private life of Gustave Flaubert and his literary contemporaries" [52] Film and television work [ edit ] Natasha's Dance is Orlando Figes's epic, richly evocative and unparalleled exploration of Russia, its culture and people. Vast in scale and woven through with extraordinary stories and characters, it ranges from the splendour of eighteenth-century St Petersburg to the power of Stalinist propaganda, from folk art to the magic rituals of Asiatic shamans, from the poetry of Pushkin to the music of Mussorgsky and the film of Eisenstein, bringing to life an extraordinary cast of serf artists and aristocrats, revolutionaries and exiles, priests and libertines. Bölüm esas olarak Petro’nun Petersburg şehrini inşa edişi ile başlıyor denilebilir. Petro’nun Avrupa takıntısına oldukça ayrıntılı olarak yer veren yazar okuyuculara bu takıntının derecesini daha iyi anlayabileceği şekilde tarif ediyor; Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-12 20:05:39 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40257704 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier In Natasha's Dance, Figes sets out to capture the many-stranded complexity of the idea of cultural 'Russianness'. But this is not just a cultural history, despite Figes's title. His book is especially angled to arouse the interest of those to whom the works of a litany of Russian artists, musicians and authors are already familiar and much-loved, as familiar as the curious Russian-clad figures in Figes's striking photographs are alien. What was it about Russia and its influences that inspired the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the plays of Chekhov, the music of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, the choreography of Stravinsky, the paintings of Chagall and Kandinsky?

Published in 2012, Just Send Me Word is a true story based on 1,246 letters smuggled in and out of the Pechora labour camp between 1946 and 1955 between Lev Mishchenko (a prisoner) and Svetlana Ivanova (his girlfriend in Moscow). There are 647 letters from Lev to Svetlana, and 599 from her to him. They form part of a family archive discovered by the Memorial Society and delivered in three trunks to their Moscow offices in 2007. [30] The letters are the largest known collection of private correspondence from the Gulag, according to Memorial. [31] Angus Macqueen (10 October 2010). "Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes – review". The Observer. London . Retrieved 31 August 2011. A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians ... Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems, dynasties, politburos, libertines, filmmakers, novelists, composers, poets, tsars and tyrants ... superb, flamboyant and masterful' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Financial TimesScammell, Michael. "Love Against All Odds by Michael Scammell | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com . Retrieved 24 July 2015. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help) Christiansen, Rupert (15 September 2019). "A ménage a trois that transformed European culture". The Sunday Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. INTERVIEWER: How much time have you spent in Russia and what was your most memorable experience there? St Petersburg symbolised Russia's eighteenth-century aspiration to make the best of the high European tradition immediately its own, in bravura style, according to Figes: 'St Petersburg was more than a city. It was a vast, almost utopian, project of cultural engineering to reconstruct the Russian as a European man.

History is a statement of facts, that is those that have not been suppressed in the archives. Writing history is uncomplicated but writing about the culture of Russia without being Russian is infinitely more difficult. Figes facts are impressive but I felt a certain underlying antipathy for Russia.An immensely learned, ambitious effort to view Russian history through the lens of its arts, music, and literature. BASIC ERRORSWhen discussing Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Figes refers to Sonya Marmeladova as Raskolnikov’s lover, which is incorrect. He also confuses the characters of War and Peace with those of Anna Karenina. Furthermore, Figes incorrectly states which organs were transplanted into which body in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog. Yeni başkentteki her şey Rusları daha Avrupalı bir yaşam tarzı benimsemeye zorlamıştı. Petro soylularına nerede yaşayacaklarını, evlerini nasıl inşa edeceklerini, şehir içinde nasıl dolaşacaklarını,kilisede nerede duracaklarını, ne kadar hizmetçilerinin olacağını, balolarda nasıl yemek yiyeceklerini, nasıl giyinip saçlarını nasıl kestireceklerini, sarayda kendilerini nasıl taşıyacaklarını ve kibar bir toplumda nasıl sohbet edeceklerini söyledi. Baskı altındaki şehirde hiçbir şey şansa bırakılmamıştı. Bu saplantılı düzenleme St. Petersburg'a düşmanca ve bunaltıcı bir şehir imajını vermişti" a b "Four Documentaries – The Tsar's Last Picture Show". BBC. 22 November 2007 . Retrieved 31 August 2011.