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Our Catalog
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We offer a variety of fiction from and about Russia in this section of our store, from classics (including Chekhov, Tolstoy and Ilf & Petrov) to modern works. Browse around, read the samples of each title, and pick up a few books for the beach or a long winter night.
So begins Peter Aleshkovsky’s profound, humorous, mystical and poetic novel in stories – a tribute to Russian provincial life that is a modern heir to Gogol’s Mirgorod tales. Strange, inexplicable things happen in Stargorod...
Buy both of Peter Aleshkovsky's novels published by Russian Life Books and save! Includes both the Booker-nominated Fish and Stargorod, the novel which first brought Aleshkovsky to national fame.
Rich in detail and characterization, Alexander Kuprin's novella At the Circus brims with excitement and life. You can smell the sawdust in the big top, see the vivid and colorful characters, sense the tension build as the protagonist prepares to face off against his nemesis...
Chtenia is the Russian word for “readings.” And it is the title of our quarterly literary journal — a publication that is chock full of quality fiction, non-fiction and photography in a convenient and portable paperback book format.
A book that dares to explore the humanity of priests and pilgrims, saints and sinners, Faith & Humor has been both a runaway bestseller in Russia and the focus of heated controversy.
The fables of Ivan Krylov are rich fonts of Russian cultural wisdom and experience – reading and understanding them is vital to grasping the Russian worldview. This new edition of 62 of Krylov’s tales presents them side-by-side in English and Russian.
Set against the backdrop of Russian history from the time of Peter the Great to the years of the post-soviet collapse, the nine stories in Vladimir's Mustache tell with great emotional honesty the story of men and women who are trapped by circumstances, alienated by history, or irrevocably estranged from the culture at large.
One hundred kilometers north of Arkhangelsk, a Russian sea captain ferries a silent operative to a secluded lighthouse... In Moscow, a hapless American answers an errant phone call and is ordered to make a mob hit... In a remote village in the Caucasus, a strange sickness is killing off locals... Blocks from the Kremlin, a disaffected spy chief is plotting a war-fueled power grab...
