This is a book in which Valentin Kataev cites episodes from his own biography, paints a panorama of Russian literary life in the twenties of the twentieth century in broad masks and shares many details about many famous writers and poets whom he met during his long and eventful life. Among the heroes of the book - naturally, under recognizable pseudonyms - are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yuri...

Pushkin, Mushkin, Dushkin (and in fact Pasha, Misha and Dania) are ordinary children and live in an ordinary city family. But something extraordinary always happens to them. They invent their own games and find adventures, but they never know whether the events are real or whether all these miracles seem to them.

What does a Labrador think about when his owner drinks wine and cries? How can dogs help with promotion at work, save from bullies and shake the nervous system of the owner? What does your beloved pet think about your exes? What is the secret of the success of a not very smart and not even the most formidable dog, in front of which a huge Rottweiler trembles?

This is a multi-vector novel, which the author himself defines as a ‘horror comedy’. This book brings together scenes of visions, family chronicles, love affairs, humorous gags and mystical insights written in a somewhat ironic key. At the center of the novel is the conflict between culture and the state in Russia. The state personifies a collective existential portrait of the ruler of...

A short, nostalgic novel by Alexander Ilichevsky, one of the major contemporary authors writing in Russian, winner of the Russian Booker and Big Book Prizes. It is a journey into the past undertaken by several old friends, rafting on the smooth surface of a wide river. During this short but emotionally intense journey unhealed resentments resurface and skeletons reappear from closets. The...

Maria Makeeva, a renowned journalist, editor-in-chief of two independent TV channels, and recipient of several journalism awards, is accustomed to dealing with news, with verified and precise stories. Perhaps that is why the phantasmagoria she created ‘shines through’ with realistic, recognizable allusions, allowing the reader to relate to the characters. In her book, which starts and unfolds...

After the revolution and Civil War, the large Burliuk family became divided—some members left Soviet Russia forever, while others remained in their homeland. The same happened with the family and wide circle of friends of Sonia Delaunay. Despite the seemingly closed borders, correspondence between the two families continued for years. The main theme of these endless letters was the debate...

The first volume covers the extremely important period of the country's transition to modern statehood — attempts to abolish serfdom, the development of a constitution, and the establishment of a new order in Europe thanks to Alexander I. These largely unsuccessful reforms, however, changed the mindset of the Russian elite and laid the foundations of the golden age of Russian culture and the...

The story takes the reader to Odessa at the beginning of the 20th century, in the very storm of events of the first Russian revolution.