Mark Talov (1892-1969) was a poet and a translator of European poetry into Russian. He grew up in Parise and his friends were K.Balmont, A.Modigliani, Merezhkovsky, Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, M.Gorky, Breton, and many others. Book contains rare photographs and documents.

This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....

Memoirs, diaries, essays on politics, music, and art.

From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

Memoirs of the famous Soviet/Russian actor, Mikhail Ulianov.

A collection of letters written by Alla Demidova to Tom Bulter. They started writing in 1990, and their correspondence lasted 15 years. Tom Butler is a Harvard University professor and Alla Demidova is a famous Russian actress.

Rolan Bykov began keeping diaries at the age of 15 and continued until his death. The reader will see the unfolding story of a nation, of theatre and film, but most of all, the story of a unique individual, ingenious director ('Aibolit-66,' 'Telegram') and actor (;The Overcoat,' 'Andrei Rublev,' ;The Dead Season'). This book is striking for its candor. 'Violent Rolan,' as his friends called...

A biography of the famous Soviet actor.