About the tragic fates of pilots who reached the heights of glory in the Soviet Union, but for various reasons were deprived of the highest honor of their homeland, about heroes without Gold Stars.

riveting, gritty accounts of some of the greatest German tank commanders, including Michael Wittmann, Hans Bolter, Hermann Bix, and others

This volume includes essays and prose about the key moments in Russian history in XIX-XXI century. The author remids us that history is just people, and there is no history without the people's deeds.

Series: Glas New Russian Writing, Volume 18 In this issue: Asar Eppel Red Caviar Sandwiches, Semyon's Lonely Soul, One Warm Dark Night, Two Tobits, July, Inasmuch and Insofar As, Sorry Lot, You're My Second, Sitting in the Dark on bentwood Chairs. Asar Eppel is a past master of the subtle detail and the bon mot. His minute descriptions of everyday life make you either burst out laughing or...

In this issue: Vladimir Makanin ‘The Captive of the Caucasus’, Victor Pelevin ‘The Tambourine for the Upper World’, Vassily Aksyonov ‘Palmer's First Flight’, ‘Palmer's Second Flight’, Zinovy Zinik ‘The Moth’, Alexander Terekhov ‘The Rat Killer’, ‘Happiness’, Mark Shatunovsky ‘The Discrete Continuity of Love’. 1995 Booker winners: Georgy Vladimov ‘A General and His Army’, Oleg Pavlov ‘An...

In this issue: Maria Arbatova ‘Equation with Two Knowns’, ‘My Teachers’, Nina Gabrielyan ‘the Lilac Dressing Gown’, Dina Rubina ‘On Upper Maslovka’, Irina Muravyova ‘In Kroporkinskaya Street’, ‘The Forgotten Woman’, Irina Polianskaya ‘The Pure Zone’, Liudmila Petrushevskaya ‘Fairy Tales for Grownup Children’, Larissa Miller ‘Springrime in Vroad Daylight’, poems.

In this issue: Leonid Latynin ‘The Face-Maker and the Muse’. This 1978 Russian novel is about an artist who lives in ‘the city,’ a dystopian hell whose citizens are identified only by numbers - unless they happen to look like an idealized face called ‘the image’ - created by the eponymous Face-Maker - in which case they receive a name and certain privileges. Plastic surgery, of course, plays...

of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia. Historical events, providing a background for the narrative, are depicted not directly but rather as seismic shock waves overturning and transforming the lives of ordinary people. Lala, Natasha, Toma - three heroines are close friends, all from formerly affluent families stripped of their...

In this issue: Alexander Genis Literary Nonfiction by A. Genis, The View from the Window, Red Bread, USA from A to Y, Brodsky in New York, Darkness and Silence: The Art of Subtraction. These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism - Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant...

In this issue: Larissa Miller HomoLudens, Childhood in Post-War Moscow, Papa Misha, St.Petersburg-Leningrad, Muzyka - Music, Flitting and Gliding, the Black Sea, Virgin Lands, My Romance with English, My Land and Home, In Lieu of Conclusion. Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow, with reminiscences of her mother, a major journalist under Stalin, and of her father...