Dmitry Furmanov: Чапаев (Chapaev)
This is a lively account of the exploits of the Russian commander, Vasily Chapaev, a historical person who fought and was killed in the Russian Civil War, fighting against the…
This is a lively account of the exploits of the Russian commander, Vasily Chapaev, a historical person who fought and was killed in the Russian Civil War, fighting against the…
The latest addition to my website is Benedict Erofeev's Москва — Петушки (UK: Moscow Circles; US: Moscow to the End of the Line). This is a hilarious satire about a…
The latest addition to my website is Elena Chizhova's Время женщин (The Time of Women). This is story set in Soviet-era Leningrad, telling the story of Suzanna, a child who…
The latest addition to my website is Fyodor Sologub's Творимая легенда (The Created Legend), a trilogy of novels which is concerned with both the upheavals in Russia at the time…
The latest addition to my website is Fyodor Sologub's Мелкий бес (The Petty Demon). This is a social satire on the inhabitants of a small Russian town, but focussing on…
The latest addition to my website Yuri Mamleyev's Шатуны (The Sublimes). This one of the most unpleasant books I have read for a long time. Mamleyev is clearly aiming to…
The latest addition to my website is Georgi Vladimov's Генерал и его армия [The General and His Army]. This is a fictionalised account of the Soviet capture of Kiev from…
The latest addition to my website is Georgi Vladimov's Верный Руслан (Faithful Ruslan). This is a classic of Soviet-era gulag literature though, unlike other gulag novels, such as One Day…
The latest addition to my website is Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. This book has received a lot of criticism, not least because it is major departure for Ishiguro as…
It was my plan to read around twenty Russian novels one after the other but, in the meantime, a few books arrived that I really wanted to read, so there…