The book tells a story of the famous Russian family of Riabushinsky, their struggle with the government in 1917 and subsequent emigration to Paris.

At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

This collection includes stories by I. S. Turgenev from 1854–1860: ‘The Calm,’ ‘Correspondence,’ ‘Yakov Pasynkov,’ ‘Faust,’ ‘Asya,’ and ‘First Love.’ The book's content is determined not only by chronological order but also by the internal connection between these works—the theme of love. Turgenev temporarily leaves man alone with the profound, the primordial, and the eternal, revealing within...

'The Master and Margarita' by MA Bulgakov is the most amazing and mysterious work of the 20th century. Published in the mid-1960s, this novel amazed readers with its unusual design, brilliance and fantastic action, uniting characters from different eras and cultures. The author created a 'novel in a novel', where a religious and historical mystery dating back to the legend of the crucified...