What's New

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!

This mesmerizing novel from one of Russia’s most important modern authors traces the life journey of a selfless Russian everywoman.

In the wake of the Soviet breakup, inexorable forces drag Vera (“Faith” in Russian) from the steppes of Central Asia to a remote, forest-bound community of Estonians, to the chaos of Moscow. Facing a relentless onslaught of human and social trials, she swims against the current of life, countering adversity and pain with compassion and hope, in many ways personifying Mother Russia’s torment and resilience amid the Soviet disintegration...

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.

 “Russian literature has so many lonely, despairing heroes whose lives have been ruined, that it seems like one cannot even begin to speak of things like hope... But of course things are not so simple..."

 

 

For well over a century, Russian city dwellers have been attracted to dacha life for the autonomy, solitude and peace it has to offer. So it is no accident that so many works of Russian literature take place in dachas – this is where people feel freer, where they open up more quickly.

 

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

 

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

Karelia from the Water • A Different Kind of Adoption • Art in Utero • The Spy Who Was Rudolph Abel • Mine Disaster • Shortened Slang • A Cabbage for Tractor Drivers • Farewell to a Poet • Summer Literature Reviews • Vladivostok • Alexander Grin • 1980 Moscow Olympics

Kyrgyzstan • Nikolai Przhevalsky • Town of Pushkin at 300 • Saving the Sakhalin Salmon • Russian London • Sergei Yesenin • Khrushchev's Shoe • Language of the Heat Wave • Nicholas II's Manifesto • The False Kremlinological Catechism • New Wave of Demonstrations

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.