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The librarian
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Mikhail Elizarov |
A collection of books, written by unpopular Soviet-era novelist Gromov, have incredible mystical powers. When Alexei inherits these as part of an uncle's estate, he has no idea of the power they hold… |
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Russia, the wild east
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Ian Jack |
A collection of new writing. |
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Winter in Afghanistan
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Oleg Ermakov |
Afghanistan - das sowjetische Vietnam-Syndrom? Unverkennbare Parallelen tun sich auf, vom Versuch der patriotischen Heroisierung bis zur Verbannung dieses Traumas eines verlorenen, sinnlosen Krieges … |
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Taras Bulba
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Николай Васильевич Гоголь |
This is a short historical novel of a Cossack and his two sons during the patriotic war against Poland. Having retuned home from their studies at Kiev University, Taras Bulba’s sons join their father… |
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Goroda i gody
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Konstantin Fedin |
"The cities are Berlin and Moscow, the years those of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, and the theme enduring: what role should the intelligentsia play in the inevitable revolution loo… |
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Ada
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Vladimir Nabokov |
Two young children engage in an inocent tryst only to later discover a wonderful and terrible secret about themselves.
"The arbors and ardors of Ardis." |
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Essays on Russian novelists
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William Lyon Phelps |
The Japanese war pricked one of the biggest bubbles in history, and left Russia in a profoundly humiliating situation. Her navy was practically destroyed, her armies soundly beaten, her offensive pow… |
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Мастер и Маргарита
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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков |
The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and … |
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The Helmet of Horror
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Various,Viktor Olegovich Pelevin |
They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue which they cannot escape … |
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Dostoevsky
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M. Leatherbarrow |
xxi,42p. ; 22cm |
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