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Our 2010 Wall Calendar peers at Russia through a watery looking glass! The rivers, lakes, oceans and seas of Russia reflect the country’s timeless beauty, be it expressed in thousand-year-old stone churches, the mysterious Neva river, or a mountain waterfall. Join us in 2010 on a journey to see Russia from a new, wetter perspective!

One of the greatest works of Russian satire of the 20th century, our brand new translation of the famous satirical sequel to The Twelve Chairs resurrects the con man Ostap Bender, “the smooth operator,” and follows him and his three hapless co-conspirators on a hilarious romp through the Soviet Russia and Central Asia of 1930.

 “Russian literature only truly noticed Siberia in the nineteenth century, and primarily as a place of exile... Gradually, however, Russian writers began to recognize a different Siberia: a richly forested Siberia where hunters roamed, a Siberia filled with villages tended by Russian settlers..."

 

 A wonderful new collection of 19 short works by many of Russia's leading fiction writers. With 100% of the profits going to benefit Russian hospice.

“There are many types of love, and sometimes they assume a form that is not immediately recognizable...” (From the Editor’s Introduction)

 

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • Terror on the Trains • Tolstoy's Unhappy Family • Berlinograd • Russia's Line Culture • Sagaalgan • Literaturnaya Gazeta • Ivan the Terrible • Galina Ulanova • Tender Insults • Lubok and Dining "Right" • Uchites Language Supplement # 07

Yaroslavl Turns 1000 • Russians Return to Afghanistan • Kremlin Archaeology • Russian National Orchestra Turns 20 • Russian Riga • Perestroika at 25 • Bobby Fischer versus Anatoly Karpov • Stalin Retreats • Poet-Speak in Russian

Winter Holidays • Tsarina Elizabeth • White Sea Lighthouse Master • Traveling with the Patriarch • Problems at the Bolshoi Theater • Marital Dispute Language • Mushroom Stuffed Eggs • Dam Disaster • Admiral Kolchak • 20th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall Collapse • Alexander II and Jury Trials • Uchites Language Supplement # 06

In connection with the launch of our new edition of The Little Golden Calf, we have inaugurated a full line of "Bender-Wear" -- tshirts, drinkware and totes that sport some of Ostap Bender's hilarious catch phrases from the novel.