September 20, 2008

Russian Folklore

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Osler Bailey, Tatyana Avanova (Editor)

Paperback, 1st ed., 464pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
May 1999

Encyclopedia of Russian
and Slavic Myth and Legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Hardcover, 392pp.
A B C-CLIO, Inc.
December 1998

Russian Gypsy Tales
James Riordan (Translator)
A. Gessler (Compiler)

Paperback, 160pp.
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
November 1992

Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev

Paperback, 661pp.
Pantheon Books
June 1976

Russian Folk Belief
Linda J. Ivanits Sophie Schiller (Illustrator)
Foreword by Felix J. Oinas

Paperback, 257pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
June 1992

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The Samovar Murders

Book four in the Matyushkin Case Files series is finally here, and just in time for Christmas. Let's face it, Poirot, Marple, Gamache, Holmes – they would probably not have had what it took to survive detective-ing in 1960s Moscow. Pavel Matyushkin, he's got the right stuff. Stoke up the samovar and get ready for a great mystery...

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1972: SALT I Treaty signed

1960: U.S. U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented by Soviet schoolchildren to the US Ambassador in Moscow in 1946. The bug was discovered in September 1952, when George Kennan was ambassador.

1947: Death penalty replaced with a 25-year prison term, in consideration of peacetime.

1942: Britain and Soviet Russia signed a collaboration treaty in London.

1938: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, writer, born

1908: Aleksei Arbuzov, playwright, born (died 1986)

1799: Alexander Pushkin, writer, born (died 1837) – date is O.S., in modern era he is feted on June 6.

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