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Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides ...

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Recording the daily lives of Muscovites in the Brezhnev period, this novel focuses on the moral compromise and deceptions involved in everyday life, with colloquial language. The author is a literary figure of the 1960s and 70s in the Soviet Union...

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Translated by Philip Metres An integral member of the '70s generation, Gandlevsky was one of the underground Russian poets who began by writing only for themselves and their circles of friends during the Brezhnev era. Despite their relative cultur...

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Ignatova's verse is highly concentrated--rich with aromas and colors and the sometimes bitter hint of what is left unsaid. Particular words or motifs gain intensity as they repeat through varied contexts. Her verse is classical, with effective but...

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Mikhail Aizenberg's poems articulate a personal response from the perspective of countercultural alternatives to the erratic climate of the political global warming of Russia's past two decades. When the cultural history of Russia's turn to the tw...

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The complete Russian text of The Kingdom of God is Within You, or, Christianity not as a Mystical Religion, but as a New Ideology of Life, by Leo Tolstoy.

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Quiet charm of oriental poetry in the ornamentally depicted quatrains, where each page is decorated with colorful illustrations. This collection is a separate artifact, so perfect that it seems - the poetic and scenic pictures have been painted by...

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Chekhov's Dama s sobachkoy (1899) is perhaps the most celebrated example of his shorter prose and one of the most famous stories in Russian literature. The tale of an adulterous liaison, set in Yalta, it shows to greatest effect Chekhov's propensi...

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Kazakov wrote lyrical and impressionistic prose in the tradition of Turgenev and Chekhov. His stories, although written in a minor key, contain fine descriptive passages and vivid imagery. A fine artst, whose works are carefully crafted and econom...

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The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually unperformable. These fresh translations restore the vitality of Gogol's lan...

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This indispensable text can justly be regarded as the forerunner to the great flowering of Dostoevsky's novels which was to follow. This book contains the Russian text of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, with an English language introduction a...

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This book contains the Russian text of Turgenev's Mumu, edited with an English language introduction, notes and extensive vocabulary.

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This book contains the Russian text of Karamzin's Poor Liza, edited with an English language introduction and notes

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This book contains the Russian text of Nekrasov's Kira Georgievna, edited with an English language introduction and notes

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Childhood (Detstvo) appeared in 1852 and was Lev Tolstoy's first published work. Together with Boyhood (Otrochestvo) and Youth (Iunost') it forms a trilogy which, though fictional, is deeply rooted in Tolstoy's autobiography. As the first-person n...

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Turgenev's povest' (or novella) Asya, of 1858, has a Rhineland setting. Asya, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian landowner, is travelling abroad with her half-brother. The narrator falls in love with her, but cannot bring himself to propose ma...

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This book contains the complete text in Russian of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades, with an introduction to Pushkin's life and work. The text is also supplemented with extensive notes in English and a complete vocabulary.

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Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840) is one of the great classics of Russian nineteenth-century literature, is a novel of unique structure, based on a series of short storied held together by a Byronic hero, Pechorin, whose gifted but emb...

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This book contains the Russian text of Lermontov's Demon, edited with an English language introduction and notes

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Chayka (1896) is the first of Anton Chekhov's four celebrated plays. While its first performance was a fiasco, the play was revived in 1898 and staged by the newly founded Moscow Art Theatre, who 'adopted' Chekhov and built their own success on ma...

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This book contains the Russian text of Chekhov's Three Stories and is accompanied with an introduction and notes.

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