Literature

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky), Tsv

This saga of a courageous African-American family offers revealing insights on a little known episode in the history of Blacks in the Soviet Union in Stalin's time and beyond.

Paperback. Measures 9" x 6"

In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the Bolsheviks and restore the Czar. He vanished without a trace. The circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery. This classic autobiography reveals

From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.

An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. Rumours of a serial killer haunt the n

Dystopian futurism by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, loosely based on on Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

These twenty-two stories, ranging from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Anton Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer.

This is the remarkable true story of a family surviving during one of the bleakest periods in Russian history.

A Soviet memoir that is equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditations on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art.

For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years!