War seemed to wander aimlessly through the former Russian Empire … The Tsars had gone but the Bolsheviks and Soviets and Red army were making only patchy progress. The horrors an
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1919, Kyiv. A silver femur, a German tailor, mysterious fabric patterns, a priest-turned policeman, a student-turned detective with a severed ear – and a city of 500,000 people l
In the 19th century Russia gave us some of the world’s greatest novelists and short story writers, the outstanding Men of Letters primarily from the golden cities of Moscow and S
If a day spent reading a book you love can be compared to a great festival, a joyous holiday, that holiday for me was the days and nights I spent reading Andrey Plantonov’s Found
Moscow-born British author Zinovy Zinik lost his Soviet citizenship in 1975 and arrived in London via Jerusalem in 1976. Zinik has written 14 books of fiction and non-fiction in bo
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a
Alisa Ganieva is a writer of fiction and essays. In 2009, her first long story – “Salam, Dalgat!” about her native land in the Caucasus – won the prestigious “Deb
Boris Akunin (pen-name of Grigory Chkhartishvili) – famous as Russia’s leading detective and crime writer, Akunin also writes ‘serious’ literary novels as well as essay
Discover contemporary Russian fiction with Boris Akunin, Alisa Ganieva, Andrey Kurkov and Zinovy Zinik. Our love of the Russian classics means we often overlook the wealth of conte
