Soviet Fiction

Após perder o pai, o antigo Pakhan, Dmitri Milanovic se vê à frente da Bratva, a Irmandade Russa. No entanto, existem pessoas que não estão felizes com essa decisão. Boris Kamanev acredita que estar à frente da máfia deve ser por merecimento, e não algo passado de pai para filho. E fará de tudo para derrotar Dmitri e ocupar o seu lugar. Kyara Smirnov perdeu os pais quando ainda era criança e foi criada pela família Kamanev. Seu sonho é completar maioridade e ir embora da Bratva; esse não é o seu mundo.

The terrifying, lengthening list of Russia’s use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev’s latest novel. With uncanny timing, he examines how and why Russia and the Soviet Union have developed horrendous neurotoxins. At its center is a ruthless chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing an absolutely deadly, undetectable, and untraceable poison for which there is no antidote. But Kalitin becomes consumed by guilt over countless deaths from his Faustian pact to create the ultimate venom.

Имена таких признанных классиков русской литературы, как А. П. Чехов, И. А. Бунин, Н. С. Лесков, А. Е. Зарин, П. П. Орловец, редко ассоциируются у широкого читателя с остросюжетной литературой. А ведь у каждого из этих авторов есть великолепные образцы детективного рассказа.

Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity 10 years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. But, what will the frustrated senator do to compel cooperation from Blackford Oakes?

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. In late 2015, a year and a half after the 2014 Revolution swept away the Moscow-leaning kleptocratic President Viktor Yanukovich, Davidzon and his wife founded a literary journal, The Odessa Review. This eagerly anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the keen and resilient perspective of an observer at its center.

"Руководитель охранного агентства направляет телохранителя Китайгородцева на Рублёвку, в семью очень небедного человека. И предстоит не самого олигарха охранять, а его ослепительную жену с годовалым ребёнком. Шеф так говорит об охраняемой: "Молодая, красивая, ноги от ушей.

При упоминании имени Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова на память сразу приходят его Белая гвардия, Мастер и Маргарита или Собачье сердце. Эти без преувеличения гениальные романы выдержали многочисленные переиздания, были неоднократно экранизированы и по праву занимают самое почетное место в золотом фонде российской литературы.

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy cities of Russia. The Mantle, which is listed among his masterpieces, describes how Russian bureaucracy turns everyone into a ghost of each other. It tells the tragicomic story of a poor low-ranking official named Akakiy Akakiyevich Bashmachkin, a faint character living on the margins of society who spends all his time diligently copying documents.

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden, 1831 is the third tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola Lysenko. This story comes from the unnamed story-teller (who was previously responsible for "The Fair at Sorochyntsi"). In this tale, a young Cossack named Levko, the son of the mayor, is in love with Hanna. He comes to her house to talk about marriage and mentions that his father is not pleased with the idea, though he doesn't say anything directly and merely ignores him.

The Cloak (sometimes translated as Overcoat) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department for his hard work.

"כעבור זמן מה – אם בכלל אפשר לדבר כאן על זמן – התברר שאחרי בוא המוות מחשבת האדם ממשיכה לחיות מכוח

Палата № 6 — самая известная повесть Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904), известного русского писателя. Перед нами история доктора Андрея Ефимовича Рагина, главврача психиатрической больницы. Одинокий и отчужденный доктор, будучи не в силах улучшить ужасное положение лечебницы, однажды посещает Палату № 6…Произведение «Палата № 6» поражает своей необычной атмосферой, а также парадоксальным и тревожным сюжетом.

Вишневый сад — последнее творение великого русского писателя Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904). Помещица Любовь Андреевна Раневская, вернувшись из Франции, сталкивается с тем, что ее любимое имение вскоре будет продано. Чтобы все не потерять, ей предлагают сдавать вишневый сад дачникам... Незаурядный сюжет комедии и неповторимый авторский стиль повествования придется по душе читателю. Пьеса Вишневый сад известна также благодаря замечательным театральным постановкам. Чехов Антон Павлович — автор знаменитых рассказов, повести "Палата № 6", пьес Вишневый сад и "Чайка".

President Truman is nearing the end of his term in office, and Great Britain has a new queen. It is 1952; the Cold War is beginning to heat up, and vital Western military secrets are falling into Soviet hands. The CIA is faced with a delicate dilemma, for the source of the leaks to the KGB has been traced directly to the Queen's chambers.

An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s, once on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the agency. Kareem has become an enemy who works with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He has arranged the murder of an American CIA agent in Pakistan, which may compromise an intricate, long-planned CIA operation to capture Osama bin Laden. CIA officer Paul Patterson, who had "run" Kareem as an agent during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, sets out to track him down.

What is the unique and most important feature that distinguishes man from all other living beings? Why is it that, contrary to the instinct of self-preservation, a parent will throw themselves headlong into fire or water to save their child? Why do people get married and why do they get divorced? Why do people have extramarital affairs and why do two people in a couple become jealous of one another? What is love?

Бывает и так, что, провожая в последний путь близкого человека, ты вдруг оказываешься переброшенным примерно на сотню лет назад, но в свою же собственную семью, где вдруг выясняется, что твой возможный предок оказался сожжён ударом молнии. Теперь тебе остаётся только жить и сделать всё, чтобы твоя семья не сгинула в горниле всяческих революций начала прошлого века.

In der kargen Stille eines russischen Pferdestalls beginnt eine Stimme zu erzählen – aber es ist nicht die eines Menschen. Es ist die Stimme von Leinwandmesser, einem alten, ausgemergelten Pferd, dessen Leben einst mit Stolz begann und in trauriger Vergessenheit enden sollte. Lew Tolstoi erschafft ein eindrucksvolles Gleichnis über Besitz, Würde und den wahren Wert des Lebens – aus der ungewöhnlichen, aber umso klarsichtigeren Perspektive eines Wesens, das von der Welt nur benutzt und übersehen wird.

A Pietroburgo, ora Leningrado, le "notti bianche" sono quel periodo dell’estate nel quale il sole tramonta verso le nove di sera e si alza verso l’una del mattino. Il celebre racconto romantico di Fedör Dostoevskij fu scritto nel periodo della sua giovinezza e pubblicato nel 1848 sulla rivista "Annali patrii". Il protagonista è un giovane sognatore romantico, poco incline ai rapporti con le altre persone. Fino a quando, durante una notte, incontra una ragazza sulle le strade deserte di Pietroburgo.