The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci

Dmitri Merejkowski

Classic Fiction

How Leonardo da Vinci become a creative genius? How did he live, love, suffer? With a care for detail & an insp

art, christian, dissident, historical, russian, symbolism

Mother Earth

and other Stories

Boris Pilnyak

Contemporary Fiction

Mother Earth
Mahogany
Ryazan apples
Tale of the unextinguished moon
Forest dacha
Bridegroom cometh
Three

collection, dissident, russia

Children of the Arbat

Anatoli Rybakov

Contemporary Fiction

On a street called the Arbat in Moscows intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of

dissident, russia, soviet

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Classic Fiction

Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur K

dissident, russia, soviet

Safe Conduct

An Early Autobiography and Other Works

Boris Pasternak

Biography

The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow

autobigrophy, dissident, nobel, russia, soviet

The Oak and The Calf

A Memoir

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Biography

In this autobiographical work, Solzhenitsyn tells of his ten-year war to outwit Russias rulers and get his work

autobigrophy, dissident, russia, soviet

The Gulag Archipelago

1918-1956

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

History

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Sovi

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August 1914

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Non-fiction

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into Eas

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The First Circle

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne

dissident, nobel, russia, russian, soviet

For the Good of the Cause

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward

dissident, nobel, russia, russian, soviet

Mikhail Bulgakov

Critical Lives

J A Curtis

Biography

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was one of the most popular Russian writers of the twentieth century, but m

dissident, literature, russia, soviet, theatre

The Fatal Eggs

Mikhail Bulgakov

Contemporary Fiction

As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the bril

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Cancer Ward

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study

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One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Contemporary Fiction

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas

dissident, gulag, nobel, russia, soviet