16: Wisdom and Wit

Cover: Yevgeny Maximyuk

• 7

  The Roads to Wisdom

  

  Tamara Eidelman

  Literature

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  Translation by: Paul E. Richardson
• 15

  Cutting Them Down to Size

  

  Vasily Shukshin

  Rural Life

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  Translation by: John Givens , Laura Givens
• 27

  How There Once Was a Fly...

  

  Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

  Literature

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  Translation by: Jamie Olson
• 38

  I've No Wisdom

  

  Konstantin Balmont

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  Translation by: Lydia Razran Stone
• 41

  An Officer's Belt

  Sergei Dovlatov

  Humor

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  Translation by: Antonina W. Bouis
• 55

  Faith and Humor

  

  Maya Kucherskaya

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  Translation by: Alexei Bayer
• 63

  Uncommon Wisdom

  

  Kozma Prutkov

  Humor

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  Translation by: Lydia Razran Stone
• 78

  Wisdom

  

  Iosif Utkin

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  Translation by: Lydia Razran Stone
• 81

  The School for Shamans

  Yuri Rytkheu

  Regions

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  Translation by: Ilona Yazhbin Chavass
• 103

  Village of Fools

  

  Natalia Klyucharova

  Humor

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  Translation by: Paul E. Richardson
• 124

  Play

  

  Zinaida Gippius

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  Translation by: Lydia Razran Stone