Author

Paul E. Richardson

PAUL E. RICHARDSON is Publisher and Editor of Russian Life, and oversees all editorial, design, production and management out of the magazine's office in Montpelier, Vermont. Involved in US-Russian business for nearly 20 years, Richardson headed up one of the first Soviet-Western joint ventures in Moscow in 1989 and 1990. He has a Master's Degree in Political Science and a Russian Area Studies Certificate from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has written numerous articles for Russian Life and other publications and authored several editions of the Russia Business Survival Guide. His website is here, and his blog over here.

Black Russians and Dark Years
Russian Life: May/June 2013
A review of "Twilight of the Romanovs," by Blom and Buckley, "Lina and Serge," by Simon Morrison, "The Black Russian," by Vladimir Alexandrov, and "Moscow 1937," by Karl Schlogel.
Author: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Decline and Stalin
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
Book reviews of "The Last Man in Russia," by Oliver Bullough; "Stalin's Barber," by Paul Levitt; "St. Petersburg City Pack," by Oxygen Books; "Happy Moscow," by Andrei Platonov (Robert Chandler, trans.); and "The Lying Year," by Andrei Gelasimov (Marian Schwartz, trans.).
Author: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Russian Alaska
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
Meanwhile, just across the Bering Sea, pockets of Russian culture predating Alaska’s sale to the US are being captured in a new documentary.
Author: Dmitry Zlodorev
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

The Scariest Year
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2013
Few know that, in 1983, the world came closer to the nuclear brink than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, thanks to a combination of ideological entrenchment, fear, and computer glitches.
Author: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Galina Vishnevskaya
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
A look back at the life and contribution of opera singer, actress and dissident Galina Vishnevskaya, who passed away in December.
Author: Ilya Ovchinnikov
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Lucky Cookies
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
Kozuli: these fragrant, decorative cookies have their origin in the Russian North, in Arkhangelsk, to be more specific. And they are perfect for a holiday celebration.
Author: Nikolai Gernet
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Pitch Dark
Chtenia: Winter 2013

Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

The Vurdalak's Family
Chtenia: Winter 2013

Author: Alexei Tolstoy
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Three Histories and Some Magic Tales
Russian Life: Jan/Feb 2013
Reviews of three works of history and one collection of fiction.
Author: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue

Spies and Cats
Russian Life: Nov/Dec 2012
A review of two new works of fiction, Matthew Dunn's Sentinel and Ilya Boyashov's The Way of Muri. Both offer entertaining reading, for entirely different reasons.
Author: Paul E. Richardson
Buy a Copy of this Issue