Chtenia: Spring 2008

Cover: Dmitry Maslov

4: Three Springs: Rebirth, Love & Politics Tamara Eidelman

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction

12: Spring Thaw Elen

Photography

13: Resurrection Lev Tolstoy

:: Translation by Louise Maude
Fiction

16: Meganom Osip Mandelstam

:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Fiction

17: Russian Spring Holidays Andrei Moroz
Poetic assistance on this translation from Nora Favorov
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction

24: A Portrait of Life in Pagan Rus Igor Stravinsky

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Fiction

27: Contact with a Mystery Ilya Ovchinnikov

:: Translation by Laura Souders
Non-Fiction

31: Grampa Mazay and the Bunnies Nikolai Nekrasov

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry

34: The Cedar Elfin Varlam Shalamov

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction

36: The Snow Maiden Alexander Ostrovsky

:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Fiction

48: The Sound of Green Nikolai Nekrasov

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry

50: Sunset over Baku Elnur Amikishiyev

Photography

51: I Love and I Will Love Again Svetlana Alexievich

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Fiction

64: Spring Comes to the Village Sergei Berezin

Photography

65: The Road Leads to the Horizon Alexandra Brushtein

:: Translation by Anna Seluyanova
Fiction

80: A Tender Age Andrei Gelasimov

:: Translation by Susanna Nazarova
Fiction

90: Spring in a Wood Vitaly Gumenyuk

Photography

91: The Tale of a Blue Frogling Yuri Nagibin

:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Fiction

109: Do Not Abandon Me, Oh Spring Yuli Kim

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry

111: Spring on the Silver Screen Tamara Eidelman

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction

113: When Spring Will Come Alexei Fatyanov

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry

115: An Interview with Yuli Kim Tamara Eidelman

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Memoir

118: 8 March 1963 Yuli Kim

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry

120: Moscow Worker Statue Alexander Dolgin

Photography

121: Springtime of the Revolution Pyotr Semiletov

:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Fiction