RBTH on Literature: Russian Bookshelf

"The Time of Women" by Elena Chizhova

I chop the onions and nod: the old ladies know better whether it’s time. What can you say to...

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"A book without photographs" by Sergei Shargunov

It was the autumn of 1993. I ran out of the house to the barricades. Here there were poor people,...

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"Christened with crosses" by Eduard Kochergin

I can’t remember how I ended up in the orphanage right before the war. My Godfather uncle Janek...

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"The vital needs of the dead" by Igor Sakhnovsky

The office was noisy with the snapping of typewriters and smelled of perfume, new parquet floors...

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Revising Joseph Brodsky's poems

I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here. I wish you sat on the sofa and I sat near....

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"Chanel ?5" by Olga Slavnikova

In the Research Facility of... but it is better not to say which one. A quarter of a century ago...

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"The Christmas Tree" by Mikhail Zoschenko

This year I was forty years. So, it appears that forty times I saw a Christmas tree. That's a...

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"Hello" by Dmitry Biryukov

Have you ever travelled in an overcrowded bus? Rammed up against the window with your cheek...

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"Liberty Island" by Nikolai Klimontovich

A healthy adolescence: football in the yard, picture books about pirates, puerile mucking about...

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