The birthday gift
In the Soviet Union, you’d never wish someone ‘S dnem rozhdeniya!’ without a proper present
by Margarita Gokun Silver
Margarita Gokun Silver is a writer and novelist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, among others. She is the author of I Named My Dog Pushkin (2021), writes the Substack blog Mastery and Margarita, and lives in Madrid, Spain.
Written by Margarita Gokun Silver