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Chtenia: Fall 2011

Fall 2011


Cover: Yevgeny Maximyuk

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Issue Theme: Wisdom

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7: The Roads to Wisdom Tamara Eidelman

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson

15: Cutting Them Down to Size Vasily Shukshin

:: Translation by John Givens and Laura Givens

27: How There Once Was a Fly... Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

:: Translation by Jamie Olson

38: I've No Wisdom Konstantin Balmont

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

Poetry

41: An Officer's Belt Sergei Dovlatov

:: Translation by Antonina W. Bouis

Humor

55: Faith and Humor Maya Kucherskaya

:: Translation by Alexei Bayer

Orthodox Christianity

63: Uncommon Wisdom Kozma Prutkov

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

78: Wisdom Iosif Utkin

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone

81: The School for Shamans Yuri Rytkheu

:: Translation by Ilona Yazhbin Chavass

Regions

103: Village of Fools Natalia Klyucharova

:: Translation by Paul E. Richardson

124: Play Zinaida Gippius

:: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone