Literature

The first novel by the celebrated Russian master Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire is a lyrical, finely crafted portrait of a lost innocence and a vanished era.

Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies and Others

The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent.

Explore Fyodor Dostoevsky's world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities.

In Molotov’s Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov’s library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their

Jumping between the diaries of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and his granddaughter's experiences in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s, the reader is guided through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine

Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol’s short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol’s earliest translators.

Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB.

An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia

A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom

A revelatory volume of 2 of the 20th century’s great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.