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New York: Oneworld, 2015. New book. Paperback 496 pp. A sweeping, multi-award winning novel set in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as gangs of marauding soldiers terrorise and plunder the countryside. Zuleikha, the 'pitiful hen', is living in the home of her brutal husband and despotic mother-in-law in a small Tatar village. When her husband is executed by communist soldiers for hiding grain, she is arrested and sent into exile in Siberia. In the first grueling winter, hundreds die of hunger, cold and exhaustion. Yet forced to survive in that harsh, desolate wilderness, she begins to build a new life for herself and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had. Exile is the making of Zuleikha.

Europa Editions, 2023. New Book. Hardcover. 512 pp. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE The longest river in Europe, the Volga, divides the continent in two. On one side, mighty mountains, large Russian cities with white stone churches, translucent blue lakes of icy water, a cold wind blowing from the North Sea, and, in the early years of the twentieth century, the winds of momentous change blowing even harder, bringing with them revolution and ideologies that will shape the next two centuries of human history. On the other side, a world that belongs to the past, that is shored up by the vast Western Steppe, where small villages dot vast farmlands and life is perfumed by a hot, fragrant breeze that has its source in the Turkmen desert and the salty Caspian Sea. Two worlds that could not be further apart. Two worlds that will be brought together when Jakob Bach is hired by Udo Grimm to give lessons to Grimm's daughter, Klara. The love that grows between Jakob and Klara has unimaginable consequences.… Read More

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1978. Used. Hardcover, dust jacket 200 pp., illustrated The book illustrates: architectural monuments - ancient fortresses: Izborsk and Pechory - frescoes - icons of the Pskovian School - minor arts - illuminated MSS.

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007. New Book. Paperback. 320 pp. In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of post-communist democracy, as millions of people in other countries celebrated the protesters' eventual victory. Any attempt to truly understand current events in this vibrant and unsettled land, however, must begin with the Ukraines dramatic history. Ukraine's strategic location between Russia and the West, the country's pronounced cultural regionalism, and the ugly face of post-communist politics are all anchored in Ukraine's complex past. The first Western survey of Ukrainian history to include coverage of the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, this book narrates the deliberate construction… Read More

Sensitive Skin Books, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 184 pp. It is difficult to find a Russian person who doesn't know by heart at least one poem by Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), whose distinctive lyricism and lush rural imagery have indelibly imprinted themselves into the Russian consciousness. Second in popularity among Russian speakers only to Alexander Pushkin, Yesenin has received surprisingly little attention abroad, where he is best known for his brief marriage to Isadora Duncan. This bilingual edition (original Russian side-by-side with translation by Anton Yakovlev) is an attempt to rectify the relative scarcity of Yesenin's English translations and to introduce English speakers to many of his most beloved and iconic poems.

Moscow: Imazhinisty, 1921. [12] pp. 22,5x17 cm. In original printed wrappers. In a very good condition, pale stains and small tear of the front cover. First publication of the legendary Imaginist poem 'Ispoved' khuligana', as well as earlier poems 'Khuligan' (without title) and 'Sorokoust'. Sergey Yesenin (1895-1925) moved to Moscow in the 1910s and gained a reputation as an unreliable young man due to close relations with Bolsheviks. After the Revolution, he "enthusiastically worked and participated in demonstrations", collaborated with a short-lived avant-garde collective 'Segodnia' (Today). In 1918, Yesenin met Anatoly Marienhof, visited a literary studio of the Moscow Proletkult, as well as a literary evening of futurists Vasilii Kamenskii and Vadim Shershenevich. In the fall of 1918, Marienhof initiated the creation of the Imaginism movement and established the Order of Imaginists gathering Yesenin, Shershenevich, R. Ivnev, B. Erdman and N. Erdman, G. Iakulov, A. Kusikov, M. Roizman, I.… Read More

London: isolarii, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 226 pp. 110mm x 70mm. Afterwords by Timothy Snyder & Yuval Noah Harari and Nan Goldin. In partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre. The seventh edition of the dimunitive isolarii (meaning 'island texts') is titled 'In the Face of War', with Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answering an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? Published on the occasion of the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, issue seven is the culmination of Yevgenia's war diary, alongside monumental work by Kadan and Khomenko. 'The young artists in this book continue to live and work in wartime Ukraine. They confront the daily onslaught of death and its reckoning. But, in the face of war, they still preserve its unintelligibility. It is by such means that history might walk down another path than the one its perpetrators intend.'.

Bethesda: Alan Squire Publishing, 2021. Paperback 71 pp. From the naive girl who willfully ignores evidence of Bluebeard's crimes, to Manet's dispirited barmaid at the Folies-Bergère, to the narrator of the book's opening sequence, who sacrifices domestic security for a passionate lover who will eventually abuse her, the women of these poems brush abandon convention at their peril, even though convention also imperils their bodies, their spirits, and their art. In this second collection, Young-whose earlier Day of the Border Guards explored Russian history and literature-continues to employ what she's learned from the great Russian writers she often translates. Like Marina Tsvetaeva, who makes a cameo appearance here, Young finds literary touchstones among sources as varied as German folk tales, Greek drama, and the Old Testament. Whether tracing the elements of Euclidean geometry or the terrain of a Civil War battlefield in Tennessee, these poems ask the hard questions: Why does love fail? How can… Read More