Russian literature in evaluations, statements and arguments. A great comprehensive collection of literary articles by writers and critics devoted to Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Chekhov, etc. Along with famous ones (Belinsky, Pisarev, etc) there are not that well known authors (Aksakov, Annensky, Merezhkovsky, Grigoriev, etc.).

Existential Tradition in Russian Literature of XX Century. Author follows parallel development of existential tradition in Russian and European literature.

Mass literature of XX century (from Verbitskaia and Artsybashev to Akunin and Marinina). Development and reflection of social problems.

Book contains poems that everyone knows as poems, or as songs, but not many people know who wrote them and when. This editions provides reference for those poems and their authors.

A collection of essays devoted to narrating and comprehension of historic processes.

The author is a well-known literary critic and his book represents a cycle of the sketches showing the dramatic nature of creative destiny of the largest Russian writers, whose peak creativity was during the Soviet era. The author includes examples of their best writings. He includes discussions of Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Sholokov, Pasternak and others. The book is written...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT PRESS (1919-1939). The book reflects results of the research based on a material of the richest foreign archives. It is addressed to experts in the field of language of press, language and culture of Russian abroad and to everyone who is interested in history of the first wave of Russian emigration.

Literary research includes notes and discoveries collected during over 40 years of work as a literary critic. Most texts devoted to Turgenev, other subjects are Griboedov, Baratynsky, Goncharov, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and some others.

Comparasement of aesthetics of Limonov and Mishima.

Lermontov's personality and his creative works. This book was first written and published in 1891.

Chronicles of juxtaposition of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva. This volume represents a meticulously combined notes of all existing juxtapositions of the two famous poetesses in the essays, articles of literary critics, and historians of Russian poetry. All excerpts are organized in chronological order: from 1912 to 2008. Volume contains large quantity of black and white photographs and...

Collection of lectures on Don Quixote Nabokov gave at Harvard University in 1951-1952.