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Chtenia: Summer 2008

Summer 2008


Cover: Valery Shanin

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Issue Theme: Road Trips

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4: Life is a Road, The Road is Life Tamara Eidelman

Non-Fiction

13: Travel Complaints Alexander Pushkin

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

Poetry

14: Old Causeway Ivan Hafizov

Photography

15: The Dilettantes' Journey Bulat Okudzhava

:: Translation by Susanna Nazarova

Fiction

28: The Road Vasily Grossman

:: Translation by Robert Chandler

Fiction

39: On Foot, A Man Set Out From Home Daniil Kharms

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

Poetry

40: Sakhalin Mikhail Laptev

Photography

41: Sakhalin Island Anton Chekhov

:: Translation by Anna Seluyanova

Non-Fiction

52: Road at Sunset Kirill Pozhidaeff

Photography

53: Chevengur Andrei Platonov

:: Translation by Robert Chandler

Fiction

64: The Road (song) Alexander Shaganov

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

Poetry

66: Trans-Siberian Railway Vova Pomortseff

Photography

67: Russia on the Rails Alexander Shevyrev
A history of train travel and railroads in Russia.
:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray

Non-Fiction

76: Autumn Fog Vasily Koval

Photography

77: Fish: History of a Migration Peter Aleshkovsky

:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray

Fiction

85: I Go Out Alone Upon the Road Mikhail Lermontov

:: Translation by Nora Favorov

Poetry

86: Forest Road Tatyana Grozetskaya

Photography

87: The Snail on the Slope Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

:: Translation by Alan Myers

Fiction

100: Moscow Metro Station Pavel Losevsky

Photography

101: Metro 2033 Dmitry Glukhovsky

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson

Fiction

120: Traveler's Supplies Viktor Malyuga

Photography

121: The Lightest Boat in the World Yuri Koval

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson

Fiction