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Russia's answer to Deborah Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Before I Croak is a comic novel from one of Russia’s most outstanding young novelists. Five middle-class women in their sixties arrive at a care home in suburban Moscow, keen to experience their ‘second youth’. One of them...

In this new collection, six Russian women take a sober view of the modern world after two decades of social upheaval. The authors featured in Still Waters Run Deep are Yaroslava Pulinovich, Olga Rimsha, Irina Bogatereva, Ksenia Zhukova, Anna Lavrinenko and Anna Leonidova. All in their 20s or 30s,...

Захватывающая история королевского ожерелья, украденного шайкой, возглавляемой графом Калиостро. В результате этой дерзкой кражи была несправедливо опорочена честь...

Yuri Leving's Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (19341939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novels...

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy’s most famous novels and a masterpiece of Russian literature. It tells the story of a young woman of noble birth in 19th century Russia, and her tragic adulterous love. More than a love...

Achmed Abdullah, pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a writer of Russian origin. He is best known for his tales of crime pulp, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for several hit movies. He was the author of the drama Siamese twins Chang progressive: the drama of the desert,...

This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky’s work. Also considered is the life and work of T.N. Granovsky, who is satirised along with Turgenev in the novel, and thus offers a useful basis on which to delineate the contours of Dostoevsky’s...

A philandering husband’s guilty conscience after his latest love affair prompts him to take his wife and children to Paris in a final attempt to save his marriage. A precocious teenager with a passion for theatre discoveries a mysterious book in a second-hand bookshop and makes it his mission to...

Rokovye jajca. Zapiski junogo vracha. Роковые яйца. Записки юного врача. Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков (1891–1940) – великий русский писатель и драматург, автор повестей, рассказов,...

“Fathers and sons” (Otcy i Deti) by I.S. Turgenev. «Отцы и дети» — роман русского писателя Ивана Сергеевича Тургенева (1818-1883), написанный в 60-е годы XIX века. Роман «Отцы и дети» ...

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (1821 - 1888) — один из самых значительных и известных в мире русских писателей и мыслителей. В романе "Идиот"  Ф.М. Достоевскому удалось...

«Первая любовь» — повесть Ивана Сергеевича Тургенева, рассказывающая о чувствах и связанных с ними душевными переживаниями юного героя, полудетская влюблённость...

«Преступление и наказание» — роман Фёдора Михайловича Достоевского, впервые опубликованный в 1866 году в журнале «Русский вестник». «Преступление...

«Дворянское гнездо» — роман, написанный Иваном Сергеевичем Тургеневым в 1856—1858 годах, впервые опубликованный в 1859 г. Один из тончайших и печальнейших романов...