In this book two Dostoevsky's stories - White Nights and The Meek One - are presented in three forms: the original Russian texts with stress marks, the parallel English translations and the transliterated texts - Russian words written with ...

In this insightful book, Koepke offers the reader a lucid, accessible description of the outer signs and symptoms of this significant turning point in every child's life.

After a brush with death as a juvenile delinquent, Vivian swore she'd never stray across that line again-- but she's completely, irrevocably and unabashedly in love with Nikolai, the Russian mob boss who saved her life.

Glorious Misadventures traces Rezanov's dream of a Russian-American empire from the intrigues of the court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World.

These two novels, written in the 1970s, display Aleshkovsky’s linguistic gifts and keen observations of Soviet life.

What happens when a first-year defense attorney is left alone with a mafia prince?

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was a key figure in late Imperial Russia, and one of its foremost soldiers.

These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking ...

Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper.

This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture.