One of the most popular books among Russians in the 1990s was Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, first published…
One of the great classics of world literature is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Bantam Books, 1970), a…
One of the most powerful and insightful dialogues that takes place in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel, The Brother Karamazov, is…
An old legend from the Volga District tells of a Bishop who was traveling from Archangel to the Solovetsk Monastery.…
I love a good mystery novel. This is a relatively new interest of mine, and it is a taste I…
In recent years, social commentators in Russia have been bemoaning the fact that Russians have lost their interest in books.…
Beginning in the summer of 2004, with the publication by Random House of The Winter Queen, American readers now have…
Russia is a complex and fascinating country and, after thirteen years of experience working in Russia, I still have much…
Beginning with his first story, written from the battlefield during the Crimean War, Leo Tolstoy became one of Russia’s greatest…
Crime and Punishment is one of the world’s greatest literary works. Written in 1864 by the Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky,…