New books:

SNUFF. Utopia (by Viktor Pelevin)

Long anticipated novel by Viktor Pelevin is is about the mysteries of a woman's heart and the secrets of flying.

Tsvetaeva in Memoirs of Her Contemporaries (by Veronika Losskaia)

This unique biography is the only one that was not written, but told by the people who were close to her. The author spent over twenty years collecting precious stories with details and comments. This is a collection of remarkably interesting memoirs which are told with sincere spontaneity.

Arkady Raikin. About Himself. About Him

This volume is devote to the 100th anniversary of Arkady Raikin, a Soviet stand-up comedian who led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century. Raikin was the creator of a whole array of unforgettable satirical characters, and a living legend of his time and his country. The book consists of the memoirs of his contemporaries: M. Roma, V. Gorshenina, S. Iursky, Z. Papernyi, B. Pokrovsky, E. Simonov, B. Pokrovsky, E. Simonov, G. Tovstonogov, O. Basilashvili, L. Zorin, L. Likhodeev, F. Krivin, M. Zhvanetski, M. Mishin, A. Dolsky, Z. Boguslavskaia, V. Katanian, several Raikin's family members, and others. This collective memoir allows to see the scale of Raikin's talent and the strength of his character. He was famous for his ability to perform his sketches despite the adverse Soviet times of hypocrisy. The introduction is written by Mikhail Zhvanetsky. THe volume includes plenty of photographs from various archives.

Galina Vishnevskaia. The Life Story (by Galina Vishnevskaia)

Famous opera singer and a great Russian woman, Galina Vishnevskaia, tells her life story. She was married to a famous Russian cellist. They were forced out of the Soviet Union in 1974 and setteled in the US and France. The book inlcudes plenty of colorful photographs.

Easy! (by Elena Kotova)

A story of John, Anna, and Helmut. A love triangle of three adventurous, not ordinary people. At the first sight their life is very attractive: vacation on yachts with oligarchs, talks about freedom, parties at Rublevka's mansions... However, each of them has their secret, the "skeleton in the closet"...

Vladimir Vysotsky: Artist and a Man (by V. Batov)

Psychological and hermeneutic analysis of Vysotsky's texts, letters, and his personality.

Life and Opinions (Sergei Dovlatov)

For the first time Dovlatov's unpublished letters from 1962 to 1990 are collected under one cover! As Dovlatov stated himself, he enjoyed writing letters even more than writing short stories. His letters constitute a big part of his literary heritage - witty and sincere texts that present his life story narrated for close people. His addressees are Viktor Nekrasov, Georgy Vladimov, Andrey Ariev, Naum Sagalovsky, Tamara Urzhumova, Era Korobov. There are also letters to his wife, daughter, and his father..
The book includes plenty of black and white photographs and drawings by Dovlatov.

Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky as Neighbours (Lev Losev)

This is the last book prepared by Lev Losev for publication. Losev was a poet, playwright, essayist, author of Brodsky biography. He taught Russian history in Michigan State University and Dartmouth College (NH) for many years.
Texts of various genres that are collected in this book: memoirs, poetry, and Losev's interpretation of various literary works.

Uncut Pages (Tatiana Ustinova)

Writer name Alex breaks up with his girlfriend and co-author, Mania. She is helping her publisher to resolve the unpleasant story when he discovered a dead body in the trunk of his car. Now Alex has to help Mania, because she can be in danger, and at the same time he needs to find the freedom that he wanted when he initiated the breakup.

Selected Works (Grigory Gorin)

Grigory Gorin was a serious person. He knew the price of the written and spoken word. He knew how people relate to words in Russia. And therefore he believed in their magical powers, capable of bringing order from chaos- both internally and externally. His texts will become his destiny.' So states Mikhail Shvidkoi, Russia's minister of culture and director of the Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography. Gorin was a well-known Russian/Soviet author and playwright; many phrases from his works have become proverbs or aphorisms. This collection holds his most popular plays, as well as some of his unpublished work.

Misha-Scheherazade (Mikhail Veller)

This is a collection of Veller's adventures during his travels around the Soviet Union. He describes the Soviet reality with wit and humor. Misha-Scheherazade was his nickname among friends because he would always tell his stories.

Dostoevsky (by Ludmila Saraskina)

"Dostoevsky is Russia in its essence, with all of its aspects of darkness and light. And he is the biggest contribution of Russia to the spiritual life of the world." These are the words of Berdyaev, but many scholars and non-scholars agree with them in describing the man, who discovered the human soul in all of its depths of good and evil, an exploration of the soul which had not been imagined in all of the previous world literature. In his great works Dostoyevsky fully reflected upon his fate - the mysterious death of his father, years of poverty and spiritual quests, hard labor and conscription for participation in revolutionary circles, the difficult ascent to fame, and these made him - as in life, so in death  - an object of enthusiastic praise and fierce attacks. Details of the writer's life, right up to the unknown and "uncomfortable", are fully reflected in this new biography, written by Lyudmila Saraskina - a well-known literary historian, the author of fifteen books on Dostoevsky and his contemporaries.

Memoirs about Russia (by Princess Olga Palei)

The princess Olga Palei (the second wife of Grand duke Pavel Aleksandrovich (1860-1919) tells about their life in Tzar Village and about revolution... During the First World War Pavel commanded the Guards Unit, but had to leave the army due to the poor health. During the February revolution he worked on a draft of the new constitution. However, it did not save him: he was executed in 1919 in the Fortress of Peter and Paul. This book is a view on a revolution and Bolsheviks as it was perceived by a Royalty member. The appendix includes letters, diaries and poems of the son of Olga and Pavel - Vladimir.

Everyday Life of the Ballerinas of the Russian Emperor's Theater (by Olga Kovalik)

The fate of ballerinas is both fascinating and sad, and full of controversy. Naive and cynical, light-minded and calculating, those dancers had to exercise and practice for their performances. The ballerinas' career was quite short - as soon as experience came, the fatigue begun. Some dancers had quick and impressive careers and were becoming the prima of the theater. Poets dedicated poetry to them, admirers gave them jewelry, choreographers created shows for them. Others remained uninvolved, did not have fame and were dancing 'by the water' until they were able to find a wealthy man who could take care of them. This book is about the everyday life of ballerinas who were dancing in the Russian Emperor's Ballet in XVIII-beginning of XX century.

Everyday Life of Russian Literary Paris in 1920-1940 (by Alexey Zverev)

October Revolution of 1917, which ended with the Civil war, has divided the Russian empire into the Red winners and White losers. Monarchists, anarchists, aristocrats, democrats, guardsmen, Cossacks, literary and art celebrities, religious thinkers, freethinkers were all urgently leaving "Soviet Russia". Many of them ended up in the capital of France. Thus, the cultural center of the world (as they called Paris those days) hosted the creme of the crop in Russian culture: Bunin, Kuprin, Merezhkovsky, Gippius, Tsvetaeva, Khodasevich, Teffi, Berdiaev, Ilyin, Korovin, Benua, Shagal, Somov, Sudeikin, Diagilev with his glorified ballet, Shalyapin... The author of this book is the famous writer and literary critic, professor of philology, and the expert on Russian emigration. He offers the documented review of the exiles survival and their mission in a literary and philosophic sense. Merezhkovsky said: "We are not in exile, we are on a mission". In addition to being an absorbing and lively read, this book contains rare photographs and documents.

The Happy Girl (Shnirman, Nina)

'The Happy Girl' is a memoir, told in story form from the point of view of little Ninusha, who would later grow into the well-known Muscovite author Nina Shnirman. These stories occur mainly during the pre-war and war period. This book is not fiction, but contains only that which was retained by the surprisingly spacious and talented memory of a child: details of the everyday life of an intelligent family (her father was an outstanding scientist, winning the State Award 4 times); relationships with those around her, and external events, which, as a rule, appear in a reflected light- through the eyes of a child who lived through it with an insatiable curiosity to know everything. 'The Happy Girl' is a very modern story, as it pertains to actions that all readers worry about: the authenticity of remembered events and times long gone.

David Burliuk in America (Evdaev, N. (editor)

The book describes the life and creative work of David Burliuk, father of Russia's futurism, as he was entitles following the example of Vasily Kandinskii. All that has been published about this legendary person - artist and poet, researcher of culture and art critic - covers the Russian period of his life and creative work (before 1922). The present book describes an almost forty-five year foreign period of the artist's life which has not been well studied by the moment. The author presents the unknown biographic materials about American Burliuk. It is for the first time that color reproductions of the artist's paintings from his family's and the author's collections are published.

Stories from My Own Life (Petrushevskaia, L.)

This is an autobiographical novel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, is the most complete collection of stories about the author's life, about her friends and family, about funny and sad personal incidents against a background of historical events, about the great people of literature and theatre. The most unbelievable is an event in Yaroslavl in which criminal charges were brought against her (for 2-5 years imprisonment) and how the 'suspect' hid from justice. One of the stories in the collection, 'The Little Girl from Metropol' was awarded the Bunin Prize in 2008.