Faith, Fiction, Friends

I’m trying to remember when I first became interested in Russian history. Most likely, when I was 10, and one of my Christmas presents (my m...

Imagine waking up one morning to discover a collection of your poetry has been published in another country, without your permission and in ...

Solovyov is a young historian, living in St. Petersburg. He grew up somewhere in the south; the village’s only name was its railroad mileage...

Perhaps it was the fact that he died young. Or perhaps it was because he never published any famous novels, or even unfamous ones. But  Vsev...

It begins with a chance meeting on an airplane, traveling from Paris to St. Petersburg. Gleb Yanovsky, a world-famous guitarist, is seated n...

Innokenty Petrovich Platonov slowly awakens. He’s in a hospital bed. At first, he doesn’t know his own name or why he’s there. Slowly and ov...

Osip Mandelstam   (1891-1938) is considered one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20 th   century. We have his much of his poetry...

Londoner Jack Manton is somewhat at loose ends. He specializes in art, and is occasionally able to spot a gem hidden, so to speak, in p...

The life of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva reads like a microcosm of the tragedy that befell Russia in the first half of the 20 th cen...

She was born to an upper class family in what is now the Ukraine in 1889. Her father called her poetry decadent, but more as a commenta...