In this issue: Sigizmund Krziszanowsky ‘In the Pupil of the Eye’, Vladimir Makanin ‘The Safety-valve’, Sergei Task ‘S.O.B.’, ‘Four Knights Opening’, Nina Gabrielian ‘Happiness’, ‘The Studio Apartment’. Transfiguration: Feminist Journal and Club in Russia, Ergali Ger ‘Electric Liza’, Dmitry Prigov ‘Poems, Drawings, Thoughts’. The Poet and Family Values: Mayakovsky and Lily Brik, The Last Émigré: Berberova and Khodasevich. The First Gay Publishing House Flourishing, Russia's First Erotic Paper Persecuted. Igor Yarkevich ‘The Provisional Government’. Centenaries: Mikhail Zoschenko (1894-1958) ‘Youth Regained’, Isaac Babel (1894-1941) ‘Babel as the Marquis de Sade of the Russian Revolution’ by Igor Yarkevich. Alex Lamont Miller: In Memoriam, Grigory Kruzhkov ‘Where Unmagical People Came From’. The issue is concluded with autobiographical information about the authors.