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Chtenia: Winter 2009
Cover: Oleg Bogatyrev
1: Featured Photographer
Photography
3: Yolka
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Fiction
10: Holiday Tree
:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry
13: Christmas Eve
:: Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonskaya
Fiction
28: The Ballroom Pianist
:: Translation by Susanna Nazarova
Fiction
45: Ded Moroz and Snegurochka
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction
51: Christmas Eve in the Forest
:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry
53: A Writer's Diary
Including the stories "The Boy With His Hand Out" and "The Boy at Christ's Christmas Party"
:: Translation by Kenneth Lantz
Fiction
59: The Pure Joy of Christmas
:: Translation by Peter Morley
Non-Fiction
65: December 24, 1971
:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry
68: An Angel Flew By
:: Translation by Nina Shevchuk-Murray
Fiction
92: New Year's Cinema
:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson
Non-Fiction
98: The Five Minute Song
:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone
Poetry
101: Love in Train Car No. 7
:: Translation by Marian Schwartz
Fiction
113: Marfusha's Joy
:: Translation by Nora Favorov
Fiction