A very interesting collection of poetry - by two poets who have met only online! Original poems and their parody.

Dmitry Panin is Russian christian philosofer () inventor of the theory of the movement of things and who has been through the Stalin's camps. Panin reflects on the tragedy of Russia, and resistance to the Evil. The volumes contain the following: Lubianka-Ekibastus, Creators and Destructors, Theory of Multiple Emptiness, Quantum Mechanic, Postulates of Marxism and the Laws of Nature, Emptiness...

The events in the novel 'Serpent's Bite' take place in the Far-East region of Russia. The corpse of a man with a cut throat is found on a staircase of an apartment building. A series of mysterious murders follow one after another. The investigation is assigned to a young police detective Belov, who finds himself in complex and dangerous situations throughout the novel. Due to his genuine...

Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last...

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family—a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator—reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome. A chilling account of Nazis after the war, here the older generation is resentful but not repentant. From the old unreconstructed Nazi officer Judejahn (the name...

This collection brings together plays by Mikhail Bulgakov that were not published during the author's lifetime. The action of *Flight* unfolds against the backdrop of the Civil War; it is a drama depicting the anguish and plight of the Russian émigré community. *Ivan Vasilievich* is a spirited comedy that later served as the basis for the screenplay of the beloved film *Ivan Vasilievich Changes...

*A Story of a Life: Books 1–3* introduces the reader to the most crucial stages of the author’s biography—childhood, youth, and early adulthood—set against the backdrop of the country’s rapidly changing history. – In *Distant Years*, Paustovsky portrays the world of his childhood: family, nature, early travels, and the impressions that shaped the future writer’s character. *Restless Youth*...