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• Publisher : Penguin UK
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• Release Date : 26 May 2005

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in

• Publisher : Penguin UK
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• Release Date : 06 December 2012

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests,

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 February 2015

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early

• Publisher : Penguin Group
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• Release Date : 16 June 1981

The stories in this anthology not only represent the highest literary quality but also typify the work of the author, making it a delightful selection of Russian prose. Twenty major

• Publisher : Courier Corporation
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• Release Date : 14 May 2012

Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Overcoat," "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Gorky, and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Tolstoy, plus works by Gogol,

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 06 December 2016

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
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• Release Date : 10 July 2016

In 1937, the Soviet Union mounted a national celebration commemorating the centenary of poet Alexander Pushkin’s death. Though already a beloved national literary figure, the scale and feverish pitch of

• Publisher : Tacet Books
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• Release Date : 10 January 2019

Alexander Pushkin was a Russian poet and writer who is considered the father of the modern Russian novel. The so-called Golden Age of Russian Literature was inspired by the themes

• Publisher : ISCI
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• Release Date : 01 March 2022

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a

• Publisher : Pushkin Press
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• Release Date : 12 September 2017

A short yet fascinating account of Russia's most celebrated writer. In Robert Chandler's exquisite biography, literary giant Alexander Pushkin, lauded as the Russian Shakespeare, is examined as writer, lover and