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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1800: Alexander Suvorov, general, died

1868: Nikholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, born

1868: Tsar Nicholas II, eldest son of Tsar Alexander III, was born.

1896: Stampede at Nicholas II's coronation celebration

1935: The Maxim Gorky, a massive, 206-foot wingspan behemoth of an airplane, crashes after a tragic mid-air collision.

1944: Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia.

1944: In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000 Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the Germans.

1977: The United States, Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war, pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes or tidal waves.

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January 10, 2012
Interview with Author William Ryan
Interview with Author William Ryan
By Paul E. Richardson


William Ryan’s second book featuring MVD Detective Alexei Korolev, The Darkening Field, was released on January 3, 2012. Russian Life Publisher Paul E. Richardson interviewed Ryan about the genesis for his character and the challenges of situating a novel in Soviet Russia.

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Tags: fiction, literature, babel, purges, history
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November 18, 2011
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and a Few Spies
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and a Few Spies

Reviews of some recent books on Tolstoy, Spying and the end of the USSR. And a new translation of an often overlooked work by Dostoyevsky. As published in the November/December 2011 issue of Russian Life.

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September 1, 2011
Review: Three World War Two Histories
Review: Three World War Two Histories
By Paul E. Richardson


It is the great, cruel paradox of World War II in Russia that heinous, unanswered crimes coexisted with truly heroic, astonishing human achievement. That – be it out of fear or love of the Motherland or self-defense – Soviets fought so bravely to defend a system that treated them like cattle, confiscating from them the land, the bread and the peace that the Revolution had allegedly been all about, shipping them and their relatives off to Siberian labor camps, sentencing soldiers unfortunate enough to have been captured in war into “penal battalions.”

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September 8, 2011
Review: New Fiction for Russophiles
Review: New Fiction for Russophiles
By Paul E. Richardson


It should come as no surprise,” writes Vyacheslav Pyetsukh at the beginning of The New Moscow Philosophy, “that where literature goes life follows, that Russians not only write what they live but in part live what they write…”

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February 9, 2010
A "very bouncy" translation of The Little Golden Calf
By Paul E. Richardson


The Louisville Courier-Journal has a nice feature this morning on Anne Fisher, the translator and driving force behind our new translation of The Little Golden Calf. It talks about how the book went in and out of favor with the Soviet regime, and how Anne was inspired to bring the work out in English because it had been so instrumental in forging her own understanding of all things Russian.

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