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Konstantin Vaginov
Two novels by one of the Soviet Union's most inventive writers, written in the tradition of Gogol and Dostoyevsky but with a twentieth-century, modernist edge.
Konstantin Vaginov was an early…
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Polina Barskova
Two lovers remain in a gallery of the Hermitage, refusing to shelter underground while Leningrad is under siege. Freezing and gnawed by hunger, they recite poems and stories to pass…
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Eugene Ostashevsky
The first UK publication of this award-winning Russian-born American poet and translator.
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A poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss…
What’s definitely good in Russia are the children’s books. So the poet Marina Tsvetaeva described the astonishing flowering of picture books for children in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. This…
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Yevgenia Belorusets
Captivating, innovative Ukrainian fiction about displaced women living in the shadow of the war with Russia.
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Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in Ukraine
A poignant collection of short pieces about the author’s hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction.
Living Pictures refers to the parlor…
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Major collection by a contemporary Russian avant-garde master
This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core of OBERIU (The Union of…
Osip Mandelstam
Offers a selection of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry in English translation.
