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The Zone by Sergei Dovlatov
Page Count: 192Year: 1982The action takes place in a strict-regime labor camp in the Komi ASSR. The author serves as a guard. The book describes the brutal fights between prisoners with sharpened rasp files and the eating of a killed dog due to starvation. The camp administration orders the prisoners to paint a huge portrait of Lenin on […]
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Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Page Count: 184Year: 1989A Moscow musician suddenly realizes that his art, his scores, and notes, are literally written into the fabric of the city. Streets, houses, and passersby begin to sound, obeying a hidden but real musical code. He tries to escape this hyper-reality but finds himself trapped within his own melody, trying to decipher the enigma of […]
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War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
Page Count: 384Year: 1985The book opens with the shocking, intimate revelations of hundreds of women who participated in the Great Patriotic War. From a sniper who recounts the difficulty of taking the first shot to a nurse who shares the details of fear, hunger, and filth on the front lines. Alexievich records these monologues to restore the authentic, […]
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
Page Count: 304Year: 1989From the first pages, the book unleashes the grief of mothers whose sons returned from the Afghanistan War in “zinc coffins.” This documentary chronicle is built on the testimonies of veterans, nurses, and families who survived the horror of the “undeclared war” and, worse, the betrayal and lies they faced upon returning home. It is […]
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An Honest Thief by Dostoevsky
Page Count: 129Year: 1848Dostoevsky relentlessly explores the complexity of human nature, exposing its vulnerability to vices, social pressure, and existential despair. In each story, deep compassion for the fallen and the downtrodden is evident, alongside a sharp critique of hypocrisy and the moral decay of society. The author forces us to peer into the abyss of despair that […]
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Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
Page Count: 192Year: 1842READ FREEThe collection of stories by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol describes a multifaceted and ever-changing St. Petersburg. Having personally walked in the shoes of a petty official and become immersed in “state service,” Nikolai Vasilyevich depicts with amazing accuracy the morals of the “significant persons” of that time. And as if reflecting the soul of St. Petersburg, […]
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