Cutty Sark (short story)

"Cutty Sark"
Short story by Ivan Yefremov
Original title	Russian: ""Катти Сарк""
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian
Genre(s)	Novella
Publication
Published in	Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5
Media type	Print (magazine)
Publication date	1944
Chronology
—   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. 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 by the Cutty Sark Preservation Society in Greenwich, London, 1954. The Cutty Sark Preservation Society was formed 2 years prior to the reconstruction of the Cutty Sark in 1952.

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

1. 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). Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013.

External links

• (in Esperanto) Cutty Sark in Esperanto
• (in Russian) Cutty Sark (first version) // Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5, pp. 27–35.
• (in Russian) Cutty Sark (revised version), published since 1958 (zip, 42,4 KB)