In this collection, centred on the theme of Childhood, we offer two early stories by Andrei Bitov which reflect the growing awareness in children of life\'s mystery and beauty; a story by Andrei Platonov, bearing the stamp of his inimitable style; Ludmilla Ulitskaya\'s perspicacious insight into the complex relationship between twin sisters; an imp...

\"Il secondo cerchio\" raccoglie quattro romanzi brevi di giovani scrittori russi che entrano da protagonisti nella realta e nella letteratura del loro paese. In comune hanno l\'eta e il potente desiderio di raccontare un tempo di incertezze e mutamenti....

Just as love is very much part of any human life, for the soviet citizen it was often accompanied by another powerful emotion--fear. For various reasons, as this collection shows, the two have always gone hand in hand in Russia....

Russia is a country rich in talent which as often gone unrecognized or been actively suppressed- and its literary achievements have frequently been inaccessible to non-Russians....

Bulgakov and Mandelstam never met and yet their lives had much in common. Both men were born in the same year, 1891, and both lives ended prematurely, crushed by the cruel totalitarian system....

\"Stamp Album\" paints a picture of hitherto unknown \"catacomb Russia\". The communal apartment Sergeev describes is not a typical community of Soviet citizens... They neither fight the regime, nor adapt to it......

This is the story of an extraordinary friendship and an extraordinary poet seen through the prism of an extraordinary time and place - the upside-down world of Moscow just after the Revolution. By the time Sergei Esenin met Mariengof in 1918, his lyrical verse had made him a national celebrity....

As Russian society passes through a stage of wrenching transformation, the vision of its writers has veered toward the absurd. Even those who work in a realist style enrich their stories with fantasy and a sense of the impossible....

In this collection, centred on the theme of Childhood, we offer two early stories by Andrei Bitov which reflect the growing awareness in children of life\'s mystery and beauty; a story by Andrei Platonov, bearing the stamp of his inimitable style; Ludmilla Ulitskaya\'s perspicacious insight into the complex relationship between twin sisters; an imp...

Born in 1962, Valery Ronshin graduated with a degree in history from Petrozavodsk University in Karelia and went on to study at the Literature Institute in Moscow. He now lives in St Petersburg. He started writing relatively late but broke into top literary magazines almost immediately....

\"The Grassy Street\" chronicles ordinary life in a typical Soviet suburb in the 1940s. Unsavory staff by any standard, but fascinating for the picture Eppel paints — with his remarkable tenderness, humor and even ebullience. Издание на английском языке....

\"Requiem for the Living\" is the life story of an orphan boy, nicknamed Alone, who grows up alone in a mountain village in North Ossetia....

In \"Dim and Distant Days\", Miller looks back over nearly five decades of Soviet history to her hungry but happy childhood in post-war Moscow; her coming of age as a Jewish girl in an anti-Semitic regime; her early loves and her student days; her encounters with the KGB as an English interpreter in the 1960s and again in the 1980s as the wife of h...

Selin\'s stories resemble videoclips in form and are just as visual, sparkling with maxims, aphoristic comparisons and witticisms. They are usually based on some fantastic plot involving fantastic metamorphoses happening to his characters and conveying Selin\'s wonder at life\'s inscrutable mysteries and inimitable beauty....

Boris Slutsky has now emerged as one of Russia\'s great twentieth-century poets. Unlike his contemporary Solzhenitsyn, this once ardent Stalinist remained inside the Soviet literary establishment, and kept his unacceptable work to himself. His best poetry and prose were published only after his death....