A Truly Unique Person A short essay recounting the author's friendship with Lydia Budogoskaya, a little known yet famous Russian writer who was gifted and uncommonly humble. Memoir
If You Can, Turn Around In which the author reminisces about his time spent with Brodsky, while the latter was sent to exile in the North. Memoir
No One is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten A gripping memoir by the heroic Voice of the Leningrad Blockade, who also suffered through literary persecution. Memoir
Diaries In which Ginzburg meditates on the Russian Jewish community - to which she also belongs - and on its role in Russian culture. Memoir
Letter to Sofya In this letter to his niece, Dostoyevsky describes the thinking behind Prince Myshkin, the central character in his novel The Idiot. Memoir
Masha is Lying on the Table A diary entry Dostoyevsky wrote on the death of his first wife, which became an extraordinary and impassioned meditation on death, immortality and human relationships. Memoir
Letter Before Exile A letter the author wrote to his brother, immediately before his transport into Siberian exile. Memoir
Clear Ponds A truly wonderful memoir of life growing up along Moscow's boulevard, by a writer hardly published in English. Memoir
The Shopping Renaissance A consideration of what NEP wrought in Moscow, from one of Russia's greatest writers. Memoir
Khitrovka One of the most famous chapters from this classic work, about the seamy underbelly of Moscow at the turn of the last century. Memoir
