Russian Library

  • Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

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    Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repar

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Hulick, Betsy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: April 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 0231189796
    • Language: English
  • A Double Life

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    An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of esca

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Pavlova, Karolina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 06 2019
    • ISBN10: 0231190794
    • Language: English
  • Stravaging “Strange”

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    “I’m not on good terms with the present day,” Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, “but posterity loves me.” Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparis

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Turnbull, Joanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0231199473
    • Language: English
  • Necropolis

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    Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 28 2019
    • ISBN10: 023118705X
    • Language: English
  • Homeward from Heaven

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    Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Karetnyk, Bryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0231199317
    • Language: English
  • The Nose and Other Stories

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    Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius come

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Gogol, Nikolai
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: September 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0231190697
    • Language: English
  • Sentimental Tales

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    Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Zoshchenko, Mikhail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 31 2018
    • ISBN10: 0231183798
    • Language: English
  • Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow

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    Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey al

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Reyfman, Irina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: November 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 023118591X
    • Language: English
  • City Folk and Country Folk

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    An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia’s aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. T

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    • Series: Russian Library
    • Author: Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 15 2017
    • ISBN10: 0231183038
    • Language: English
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