Everything in this life has to be paid for. The protagonist of our book paid for the fleeting minutes of fame, wealth and much more. As he later understood, neither money nor fame can replace the feelings experienced by a person experiencing love, joy, hu

Some mysterious documents fall into the hands of the protagonist of Andrei Kurkov's action novel The Good Angel of Death, Mykola Sotnikov. Hiding from people who want to take possession of them, he embarks on a journey to the Caspian Sea. The trip is very risky and dramatically changes the life of the hero.

Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and drinking vodka with Putin, he's on top of his game and in fin

The protagonist of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' - journalist Viktor Zolotarev - receives an unusual task from a leading newspaper: to write obituaries about famous influential people who ... are still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a partic

ItÆs the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square cafΘ, everything changes.

But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Cal’s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolish everything -...

Here the first three books of Paustovsky’s epic autobiography - long unavailable in English - appear in a splendid new translation by Douglas Smith. Taking the reader from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, his family struggling on the verge of collapse, through the first stirrings of writerly ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on the front lines of World War I and then as a...

Fedor Fedorovich Sviridov is a very successful and successful person, but terribly lonely. Having lost almost everything overnight - the house, the family where his beloved daughter remained - he takes in an orphaned dog named Apelsinych. And then two loneliness met and selflessly fell in love with each other. But a charming flutist appears in the life of Fyodor Fyodorovich..

A collection of poetry.

Sergei Esenin is one of the most tragic Russian poets of the 20th century. It was he who expressed the tragedy, crying, confusion of the ancestral Russia, when in the seventeenth year the connection with its thousand-year history was interrupted. He is the most mysterious poet. A peasant son, for more than ten years (from the rapid entry into literature to the tragic death), he found himself in...

The Tale of Khoja Nasreddin is a wonderful book that takes pride of place in the treasury of Russian literature, based on the folklore of Central Asia. The adventures of a cheerful, cunning tramp, the hero of many anecdotes, parables, fairy tales, have long gained worldwide fame. Driven by hatred for the greedy rich, fed at the expense of the common people, he uses all sorts of tricks to...