In one of the books, Aleksandr Etoev said of the city in which he was born: 'Living almost desperate in it, I changed so many districts, streets, houses, apartments that the whole city became my eternal home. Everywhere I go, on any bench in any square, garden I sit down, poplars, garden grates, fountains, even urns and lanterns smile at me, they feel my local, post-war Leningrader in me, they...

Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. In his poems there was a place for a wide variety of thoughts, feelings, fantasies: this is 'loneliness among the crowd', and wandering around Europe, women's love, reading magic stories, the art world, ancient myths and ancient legends, childhood memories, dreams, dreams, religious insights ... A native of Prague, who wrote...

What do Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, a little French immigrant, the current president of Russia, a famous cartoonist and the Devil himself, have in common? The answer is unexpected: Notre Dame Cathedral. For some, the symbol of faith, for some, the view from a tourist postcard is Notre Dame for everyone. That is why, when a fire broke out there in April 2019, millions of people experienced it as a...

M. Yu. Lermontov is the second, after Pushkin, value in Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century. This edition publishes Lermontov's poems of different years, including such generally recognized masterpieces as 'Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Mtsyri', 'Demon', as well as the novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - one of the pinnacles of Russian prose. Perceived by contemporaries of M. Yu....

This edition includes the most famous poems and poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde. M. Tsvetaeva called him 'the world's first poet of the masses ... the first Russian poet-orator.' Mayakovsky, who 'equated a feather to a bayonet', became the true voice of the revolution and a symbol of the Soviet era. But in...

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no...

'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis, a surgeon who saves human lives. The heroine is an Italian actress, surrounded by fans, quick-tempered, like all artists, beautiful and...

On the sides of the railway, in harsh lands, there are boundless steppes, and here, apart from the main road, only his best friend, Kazangap, lives. When Kazangap dies, Yedigei decides to bury him in the old cemetery of Ana-Beyit - ‘Rest in Rest’ - fanned by the discovery of legends and legends. However, on the site of the cemetery, where many of his skeletons of his ancestors lie, a spaceport...

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. ‘Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing,’ note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché...

Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...