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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 author recounts his experiences in Russia when he worked there in the reality television field in the 2000s. [2] Elder describes the work as "Part reportage and part memoir". [ 1 ] The author also includes stories of various figures who succeeded or faced hardships in that time period.
The Russian Concubine is a 2007 novel by Kate Furnivall.The book is loosely based on the story of Furnivall's mother Lily, who was a Russian refugee. [1] Set in Russia and China, it is a love story between Lydia Ivanova and Chang An Lo and is followed by a sequel The Concubine's Secret and a prequel The Jewel of St Petersburg, which is about Lydia's parents Valentina and Jens.
The story was retold and translated into English with the title Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish by Lee Wyndham in "Russian Tales of Fabulous Beasts and Marvels", illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. [9] The tale was also published as a standalone book titled The Fool and the Fish, with illustrations by artist Gennady Spirin. [10]
The stories are set in medieval Russia along the Dnieper river, [1] in a fictional alternate history of Kievan Rus', a predecessor state of modern-day Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The three books in the series are Rusalka (1989), Chernevog (1990), and Yvgenie (1991). Rusalka was nominated for a Locus Award in 1990. [2]
20th-C Russian Literature (pre-1990): Alexander Nitzberg's translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel Master and Margarita (Galiani Berlin) Contemporary Russian Literature (post-1990) : Marian Schwartz's translation of Leonid Yuzefovich ’s novel Harlequin’s Costume (Glagoslav Publications)
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America is a 2018 book by Timothy Snyder. In it, Snyder explores Russian attempts to influence Western democracies and the influence of philosopher Ivan Ilyin on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation in general.