Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. This collection includes work by Lermontov, Annensky, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak and more
In The White Guard, Bulgakov's brilliant and evocative prose, translated by Michael Glenny and introduced by Orlando Figes, brings unforgettably to life the chaotic city of Kyiv in 1918 and sheds fascinating light on the complex, interwoven histories of Ukraine and Russia.
Leo Tolstoy was born in Russia on 9 September 1828. While War and Peace and Anna Karenina became his most enduring masterpieces, Resurrection, his last novel, is a dark story in which the whole of Imperial Russian society is tried and found wanting.