New books:

Alexander Galich. Full Biography (by Mikhail Aronov)

Alexander Galich (1918  1977) was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, and singer-songwriter. Galich was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1974. He initially lived in Norway for one year, where he made his first recordings outside of the USSR. These were broadcasted on Radio Liberty, a United States Congress-funded radio station outlawed in USSR. His songs became immensely popular in the underground scene for being openly critical towards the Soviet government. He later moved to Munich, where he joined the Russian anti-communist organization NTS. He finally moved to Paris where, on the evening of 15 December 1977, he was found dead by his wife, clutching a Grundig stereo recording antenna plugged into a power socket. While his death appears to have been an accident, the consensus opinion was that it was either an assassination or a suicide.

Leo Tolstoy. Flight from Paradise (by Pavel Basinsky)

The new book by Pavel Basinsky is based strictly on the available archival documents and it recreates the Tolstoy's life and especially his flight from Yasnaia Poliana at age 82. Why did he leave his wife, his family? Did he want to be with peasants? Was the home environment so unbearable? Or did he finally fulfilled his dream of leaving home and going wander like Buddha did in his young years? In this book author carefully analyzes the relationships, the circumstances, and examines all existing versions of Tolstoy's flight.

Poetry (by Lev Losev)

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.

The Black City (by Boris Akunin)

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For the first time Dovlatov's unpublished letters from 1962 to 1990 are collected under one cover!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.

The House, in Which... (by M. Petrosian)

Fifty Shades Freed (by E. L. James)

The Holy Garbage (by L. Ulitskaia)

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.

Tarkovsky. Life on a Cross (by L. Boyadzhieva)

Heroes of the 1990s. People and the Money

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.

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.