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Over a hundred years ago, something truly outrageous occurred at Yasnaya Polyana. Count Leo Tolstoy, a famous author aged eighty-two at the time, took off, destination unknown. Since then, the circumstances surrounding the writer's whereabouts during

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He is young, intelligent, well educated, with patriotic sentiments. But certain misunderstandings oblige him to flee from Ukraine, because in his native land he is a misfit, a superfluous man. For some reason, everything in his life builds u

Sasha "Sankya" Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation stuck between eras. They don't remember the Soviet Union, but they also don't believe in the promise of opportunity for all in the corrupt, capitalistic new Russia. They belong

Since Maidan in Kyiv and Russian presence in the Crimea, Ukraine has never been the same. In 2014, the country is deeply divided by the conflict imposed on the Ukrainians. But since nobody actually asked the nation, author Oleksandr Shyshko decided t

Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is a book of photographs that has been compiled by the famous Russian fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev. The book is all about children's clothing and fashion in Russia in the age of the Tsars, from the 186

Aleksej Vjazintsev is een 27-jarige man uit Oekraïne met een mislukte artistieke carrière. Na de val van de Sovjet-Unie reist hij af naar een stadje in Rusland om de flat van zijn wijlen oom te verkopen. Al snel komt hij erachter dat oom Maxim de tit

One night in 1974, Archana, her brother's wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archana's younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which

In 2012 was Alledaagse Heiligen en Andere Verhalen dé sensatie in Rusland op boekengebied. De schrijver Tichon (Sjevkoenov), archimandriet van de Russisch-Orthodoxe Kerk, ontving voor het boek de onderscheiding 'Proza van het Jaar', één van de meest

The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, j

Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff's book "The Crime of Chernobyl

Having spent years in a coma, a female protagonist is anxious to lead a normal life. Her miraculous recovery is riddled with falling in and out of our time continuum - she wanders through history in her imagination as if it were her backyard. Notwith

A Man of Change is a gift from the Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin otherwise known as The Yeltsin Fund, produced in cooperation with Glagoslav Publications and distributed with the aim to preserve the knowledg

Towards the end of World War II, a Belarusian soldier and an Italian girl escape from a Nazi concentration camp. The soldier wonders if he should get rid of the girl; she is a burden and is slowing him down. However, he cannot bring himself to abando

Maria Rybakova's Gnedich captures the reader's attention in its first stanzas with a striking allusion to Homeric Greece: "The rage that killed so many/the wretched rage of Achilles/who knew that he would perish/ that he would perish young. This is

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Essential Poetry includes translations by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski of lyric poetry from all of great Modernist Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva's published collections and from all periods of her life. It also incl

Zinaida Tulub's novel The Exile is one of the most brilliant works in the canon of fiction about Taras Shevchenko, the outstanding Ukrainian poet and artist. The idea of writing about Taras Shevchenko first occurred to her when she was in he

The Investigator is set in the mid 20th century USSR. With Joseph Stalin at the helm the post-war Soviet society struggles to rebuild and heal the nation of its multiple wounds. Nothing comes easy. The authorities are being confronted with new and qu

Moscow in the 1930s: A Novel from the Archives reveals Moscow as it was in a bygone age, a city now found only on old maps, but an era that continues to haunt us today. The novel features a wide cast of characters, who are all tied together by the au

It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva, writeseminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her o

Marietta Chudakova is an expert on Soviet literature and on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov in particular. Her biography of Bulgakov was first published in 1988 and remains the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the writer's life ever produc

The Tale of Aypi follows the fate of a group of Turkmen fishermen dwelling on the coast of the Caspian Sea. The fear of losing their ancestral home looms over the entire village. This injustice is being made to look like a voluntary initiative on the

Postwar Nuremberg is set to host a historically unprecedented trial of the leaders of the defeated Third Reich. The whole world is awaiting a just verdict, but it is here where Soviet counterintelligence must wage a secret war against forces that see

The religious philosopher and poet Hryhory Skovoroda (1722-1794) is described by many as the Ukrainian Socrates and was one of the most learned men of his time. He was a polyglot who knew the Bible virtually by heart, as well as the writings of the C

The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland. An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish liter

Sacred Scripture quotes Jesus Christ only once during the first thirty years of His life on earth. The twelve-year-old asks two precise and profound questions: “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business (Luke 2:4

De Weg naar Binnen (School for Prayer) van Metropoliet Anthony is een klassiek werk over het gebed, geschreven vanuit de schrijver zijn persoonlijke ervaringen en zijn diep geestelijke leven. Er is ook een uitgebreid interview met Metropoliet Anthony

Elena Dolgopyat was born and raised in the USSR, trained as a computer programmer in a Soviet military facility, and retrained as a cinematographer post-Perestroika. Fusing her diverse experiences with her own sensitivities and preoccupations, and we

Verliefd zijn op het leven betreft een bloemlezing van verschillende, nu voor het eerst naar het Nederlands vertaalde artikelen waarmee het orthodox-christelijke geloof toegankelijk wordt gemaakt voor een breed (ook niet-orthodox) publiek.Zo wordt va

Oorspronkelijk verschenen in de Living Religions Series te Londen in 1971, De Orthodoxe Kerk van aartspriester Sergei Hackel is een boek waar zowel leken als gevorderden op het gebied van de orthodoxie in geïnteresseerd zullen zijn.In begrijpelijke t

De rechten van de mens zijn gedurende de laatste decennia een onderwerp gebleken dat moeilijk te behandelen valt; bijna iedereen beroept zich er op, spreekt er over en verdedigt ze, maar wat zegt het Evangelie over de mensenrechten? Worden wij als ch

In deze heruitgave van vader Alexander Schmemanns klassieker, leunt Schmemann op de sacramentele en liturgische traditie van de Orthodoxe Kerk om zijn lezers een binnen de kerk grotendeels verloren visie op de sacramenten van biecht en communie te ge

Het is 2033. Twintig jaar geleden heeft een atoomoorlog de beschaafde wereld in puin gelegd. In Moskou heeft een klein deel van de bevolking zijn toevlucht gevonden in de grootste atoomvrije schuilkelder op aarde: de metro, ooit gebouwd door Stalin.H

Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is not only the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, he is also one of the great figures of the European Renaissance. Over the space of his rather brief life, he excelled in every literary genre he attempted: secul

In 1914, the Russian Empire is at its peak of affluence. The future looks bright, and spring brings new promise with the migrating swallows heralding summer. Ivan Alexandrovich, internationally renowned professor of ornithology, lives with his grandd

In dit helder geschreven boek, wordt vanuit een orthodox perspectief een zeer gedetailleerde visie gegeven op de geschiedenis, de theologie en de spiritualiteit van de Orthodoxe Kerk.De auteur stelt zich in deze op als een vertegenwoordiger van een m