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The Russian Riveter
In the 1990s post-Soviet Russia was in the political limelight, but its literature was practically unknown. Formerly banned books were…
After the Ball is a novella written by Tolstoy in one day in 1903, and turned out to be a prophetic…
If a day spent reading a book you love can be compared to a great festival, a joyous holiday, that…
In my personal list of the best of the best literary texts – written not only in Russian, but in…
A pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist poem in prose, this describes the entire drama of being a Soviet intellectual – in drunken conversations…