Vse [Everything]
Aleksander Vvedensky
The book which was prepared by Anna Gerasimova practically includes the complete collection of Vvedensky’s «adult» works. It includes biographical materials, correspondence, reminiscences of the poet, all published in its appendix.  more...

Portret neznakomtsa [A Portrait of an Unknown Man]
Boris Vakhtin
The book offers artistic prose and journalism by Boris Vakhtin. He was an outstanding figure of the cultural and literary life of Leningrad in the 1960s and 1970s. Together with V. Maramzin, I. Efimov, V. Gubin and S. Dovlatov he established the literary group «Gorozhane» (Urbanists). His story «Dublyonka» (The sheepskin coat) became part of the anthology «MetrOpol» (1979).  more...

Krugi po vode [Circles on the Water]
Natalia Gorbanevskaya
The book «Circles on the Water» comprises a collection of poems of the second half of the 2000s. more...

Literaturnaia matritsa : Uchebnik, napisannyi pisateliami : V 2 tomakh [A Literary Matrix. A Manual Written by Writers. In 2 Volumes.]

In this collection modern writers and poets reflect on Russian classics whose works are part of the school programme in literature. more...

Matematik [The Mathematician]
Aleksandr Ilichevsky
The hero of the novel is Maksim Pokrovski, a talented mathematician and professor at the Princeton University. As a result of many years of work he obtained the Fields Medal, but he understood that he had reached a top that he did not need. He started drinking, abandoned his family and his teaching job at the university and set out to search for the lost senses. He went to San Francisco, White Russia, South Russia... But only on the slopes of a mountain peak of Tien-Shan he managed to understand what constantly slipped away in figures and formulas. more...

Chetyre teksta iz Bol'shoi kartoteki : Stikhi : V 4 tomakh [Four Texts from the Big Card File. Poems. In 4 Volumes]
Lev Rubinshtein
«…After Tynyanov we know the role which the conception of the «literary way of life» plays in the history of art and literature. It is a system of private relationships, the common way of spending time, which absolutely cannot be ignored. This has an influence on the aesthetics and the motivation of the expression; it is that place where texts exist, where they are created and exist. This is why in my time I created an aesthetics which is not based on the principles of writing, but on the principles of its existence. Well, this is where the index cards come from.» more...

Drugoe kino : Stat'i po istorii otechestvennogo kino pervoi treti XX veka [A Different Cinema: Articles on the History of the National Cinema of the First Third of the 20th Century]
Rashit Iangirov
This collection comprises articles dedicated to such little explored topics as documentary shootings of Nikolay I and Lenin, religious topics on Russian TV, international contacts of the Russian cinema, the Jewish topic and the Russian audience, the destiny of the masters of the pre-revolutionary cinema in the Soviet cinema, the contacts of the cinema with the avant-garde and the emigrant conception of cinema etc. more...

Rasskazy o Baal'-Shem-Tove [Stories About Baal Shem Tov]
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
This collection of short stories about the deeds of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism is published in Russian for the first time. Agnon assembled this collection in 1921, but the volume which was prepared for printing burned down together with the writer’s house. Subsequently he restored part of his notes, but they were only published many years after his death. more...