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B Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaak Babel (1894–1940) Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales Red Cavalry poster, 1919 Red Cavalry poster, 1920 Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) A Week Like Any Other Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) The Malachite Box Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov Bazhov ...
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One of Onfim's schoolwork doodles (no. 200), depicting himself as a horseman slaying a person, presumably his teacher. [a] [1]Anthemius (Old Novgorodian: Онѳимє, romanized: Onthime; fl. c. 1220–60), [b] better known by the modern Russian spelling of his name, Onfim (Russian: Онфим), was a boy who lived in Novgorod (now Veliky Novgorod, Russia) in the 13th century, some time around ...
Each of the book's chapters is set according to a doubling then halving chronological structure. The first chapter is the day after the Count's arrest, the second is two days after, and subsequent chapters are set five days, ten days, three weeks, six weeks, three months, six months, one year, two years, four years, eight years, and sixteen ...
Lefty then gets an invitation and travels to England to study the English way of life and technical accomplishments. The English hosts try to talk him into staying in England, but he feels homesick and returns to Russia at the earliest opportunity. On the way back, he engages in a drinking duel with an English sailor, arriving in Saint ...
The New York Times ranked it #72 in its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [6] Dwight Garner described it as an "enormous radio" of stories but commented that they sometimes are "baggy and repetitive". Comparing the author to Studs Terkel, Garner praised the observations of Alexievich and the English translation's quality. [1]
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War is a 2015 techno-thriller by P. W. Singer and August Cole. Set in the near future, the book portrays a scenario in which a post-communist China, assisted by Russia, launches a technologically sophisticated attack against the United States in the Pacific Ocean that leads to the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
A Summer in the Red Scarf (A Summer in a Pioneer Time): The first book in the series tells the story of Yury, a shy 16-year-old, who arrives at a Soviet Pioneer camp in the summer of 1986, and Volodya, a 18-year-old undergraduate who serves as Yury's group leader. As the two boys fall in love and tentatively discover their sexuality, they face ...