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Glagoslav Publications is an independent British-Dutch publishing company, specializing in the production and worldwide distribution of the English and Dutch language translations of fiction and non-fiction titles by Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian authors.

Expertise in Slavic and European languages and literature, extensive experience in international publishing, and a deep appreciation of the histories and cultures of both Western and Eastern Europe enable us to offer English-speaking readers throughout the world and Dutch readers in The Netherlands and Belgium access to important works that deserve an audience beyond their native lands. We seek out books from Slavic countries that represent an important part of our common cultural, literary, and intellectual heritage and that promote a better understanding of this intriguing but often misunderstood part of the Eurasian continent.

The primary focus of Glagoslav Publications is to bring out translations that embody values that are uniquely Slavic in nature. Every book that we publish has already achieved an engaged readership in its native land, has been recognized by international critics, and, in many cases, has either received or been short-listed for prestigious national and international awards.

Glagoslav Publications has launched an entire series of previously untranslated fiction and non-fiction titles including re-publications of translations that deserve the attention of international readers with an interest in Eastern Europe.

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In 1941 a Belarusian soldier and an Italian girl escape the Nazi concentration

camp. Th e soldier tries to get rid of the girl; she is a burden and is slowing

him down. But she is also a native and knows the territory and the Alps where

they eventually fi nd their shelter. Somewhere along the way the two develop

feelings for each other but their love is not destined to grow beyond the edge

of the mountains. Yet, their emotional bond cannot be denied and years after

the war something happens…

From the master of psychological narrative whose fi rsthand experience with

World War II enabled him to re-create the ordeal on pages of his books,

Alpine Ballad is Vasil Bykau’s most heartfelt story. Bykau sends a powerful

message to his readers: human values can be extrapolated and in the context

of war people can still uphold their humanity.

An altruistic, philanthropic project of Glagoslav Publications, Alpine Ballad

is coming out as a gesture of peace and a reminder to all of the human cost of

wars that ransack our planet to this day.

Translated from the Belarusian by Mikalai Khilo.

Vasil Bykau

Alpine BalladNovel

ISBN: 9781784379445Available in Paperback, Hardcover,

Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Vasil Bykau (1924 – 2003) is a household name in Belarus and is

the most widely read Belarusian novelist outside his native country.

Bykau’s novels featuring World War II have been captivating minds

and hearts of generations of readers in Belarus and beyond its borders.

Hailing from a small Belarusian village, Bykau experienced the war

as a young man and later, already a writer, transferred his memories

onto pages of his literary works. After the war, Bykau quickly became

actively involved in promotion of the Belarusian renaissance, albeit

clashing with the Soviet authorities. His opinionated position

on many issues earned him popularity among peers and a strong

following in Belarus and abroad where he had lived for many years.

G L A G O S L A V P U B L I C A T I O N S

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A publishing sensation in Russia in 2012, Everyday Saints and Other Stories

by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) of the Russian Orthodox Church hit

the top of the bestseller lists in the country and won several national awards

including Book of the Year.

Th is fi nest piece of “monastery prose” is a collection of stories from the author’s

life. Th e book continues to mesmerize the international audience, and here’s

why. In it, readers fi nd homilies, confessions and parables, words of universal

wisdom and much more. “Almost all the stories included in the book, were

part of my sermons. All this is part of our church life. A sermon is based on the

understanding of the Scripture, on the interpretation of church events by the

holy fathers and examples from life. Students of pastoral theology told these

stories. To brotherhood and friends. Many advised me strongly, and then even

demanded, that these stories were written.”

Th e book has been translated into English, German, French, Polish, Greek and

other languages.

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Everyday Saints and Other Stories (Dutch)

ISBN: 9781784379186Available in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Archimandrite Tikon (Shevkunov) is a clergyman of the Russian

Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate. He is the Abbot of the

Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, and the Executive Secretary of the

Patriarchal Cultural Council of the Moscow Patriarchate. He is also a

member of the Presidential Council on Culture and the Arts for the

Russian Federation.

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In his book Vladimir Lenin. How to Become a Leader, Vladlen Loginov who

is one of major authorities on Vladimir Lenin, writes about the revolutionary

leader’s early years, his parents, his choice of career and his political activity.

He goes on to show where the future statesman and creator of the world’s fi rst

socialist country came from with his incredible will power and ability to

infl uence people, his drive towards success and his leadership qualities. All of

these were Lenin’s distinct character traits since a young age.

Hundreds of books have been written about this one of the most misterious

and infl uential people in the history of mankind. In his research, Vladlen

Loginov used new sources, previously unknown documents and memoirs,

and uses archive of Russians in exile. In this work, Loginov, with objectivity

of a great historian, explores ways which in his fi rst thirty years of life led

Vladimir Ulyanov, a graduate of the School of Law at Kazan University,

baptised in Russian Orthodox Church in his childhood, to the establishment

of the world’s fi rst socialist state. Vladlen Loginov

Vladimir Lenin.How To Become a Leader

Biography

ISBN: 9781782670612Available in Paperback, Hardcover,

Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Vladlen Loginov is the director of the Center for Historical Research,

professor of National and World History at the Russian Academy of

Education, author of over 400 academic works on the 20th century

history of Russia.


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Paradoxes of Growth addresses vital problems of global demographic revolution

when humanity shifts to a limited reproduction. Th e answer to the questions

why this happens and what are the consequences of that infl uences not only our

distant future, but also our approach to solving today’s problems, particularly

the analysis of the causes and results of the global crisis.

In his book, Sergei Kapitsa examines the concept of the model and the main

results of mathematical modelling which led to the theory of growth of the

world population, off ers an interpretation of history and development of

the humanity, the present and the future that we may expect. Th e discussion

of global issues is not intended to be a complete analysis, but shows the

opportunities off ered by the quantitative analysis of the history of the world.

Th e concept developed by Kapitsa is related to human civilization as a whole

and can provide some forecasts for large bounded communities as well.

Translated from the Russian by Inna Tsys. Sergei Kapitsa

Paradoxes of GrowthPopular science

ISBN: 9781782671213Available in Paperback, Hardback,Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Sergei Kapitsa was an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist, professor

and TV presenter, patent-holder of 14 inventions and 1 discovery,

author of hundreds of books and articles published in many languages

around the world. He conducted scientifi c research and worked in

numerous fi elds of science. Professor Kapitsa was one of the founders

of cliodynamics and the creator of the phenomenological mathematical

model of hyperbolic growth of the world population and the global

demographic transition.

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Over a hundred years ago something outrageous happened in Yasnaya Polyana. Count

Leo Tolstoy, a famous author eighty two years of age at the time, took off , destination

unknown. Since then, circumstances surrounding the writer’s whereabouts during his

fi nal days and his eventual death bred many myths and legends.

Popular Russian writer and journalist Pavel Basinsky picks into archives and presents

his interpretation of facts prior to Leo Tolstoy’s mysterious disappearance. Basinsky

follows Leo Tolstoy throughout his life up to the very end. Reconstructing the story

from historical documents, he creates a visionary account of events that led to the

Tolstoy family drama.

Translated from the Russian by Scott D. Moss.

Pavel Basinsky is a famous Russian writer and literary critic, member of the Union of

Russian Writers and the Academy of Russian contemporary literature and an active

member of the permanent jury of the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Yasnaya Polyana Book

Prize.

Basinsky graduated from the Saratov University and the Maxim Gorky Literature

Institute in Moscow, where he also obtained his PhD in Russian Philology. Since

1981, Pavel Basinsky’s works of criticism have been appearing in Literaturnaya Gazeta

(‘Literary Newspaper’) and such literary journals as Novy Mir (‘New World’) and others.

Currently he a culture editor of Rossiyskaya Gazeta (‘Russian Newspaper’).

Pavel Basinsky received the Big Book Prize for his book Leo Tolstoy: Flight From Paradise

and the Anti-Booker Prize for his works of literary criticism.

‘Much as Pavel Basinsky bases his narrative on documentary proof, the [book] is still an essentially intimate statement’ THE VOICE OF RUSSIA


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Pavel Basinsky

Leo Tolstoy: Flight From ParadiseBiography

ISBN: 9781782671268Available in Paperback, Hardback,Mobi/EPUB/PDF

“A new and powerful book by Pavel

Basinsky describes the writer’s last

days in moving and graphic terms.”

RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES

“Pavel Basinsky took a diff erent

approach, showing Tolstoy’s departure

through the perspective of his entire life,

which makes this book so special.”

RUSSIA NOW

‘Much as Pavel Basinsky bases his narrative on documentary proof, the [book] is still an essentially intimate statement’ THE VOICE OF RUSSIA

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Th is book is a novel-in-verse about the fi rst Russian translator of the Iliad, the

romantic poet and librarian Nikolai Gnedich (1784-1833). Since Gnedich

spent almost his entire life translating Homer’s epic poem, Maria Rybakova

has chosen verse as the most appropriate stylistic means in recreating his

life. To the English-speaking world, this genre of poetic biography is best

exemplifi ed by Ruth Padel’s Darwin – A Life in Poems.

Like the Iliad itself, the novel consists of twelve Songs or Cantos, and covers

the life of Gnedich from his childhood to his death. It depicts the lives of

Gnedich and his best friend, the poet Batyushkov, who is slowly losing his

sanity, and incorporates motifs from their poetry, from Homer’s epics, and

from Greek mythology, as well as magnifi cent images of imperial Russia and

the Homeric world. Th e space of the novel covers snowy Russian villages,

aristocratic St. Petersburg salons, magnifi cent Italian landscapes, and the

austere Greece of Homer’s heroes. Rybakova allows readers to lift the veil of

secrecy that surrounds imperial Russia, the foregone era that’s lost forever and

only comes to life by the will of a writer.

Maria Rybakova

GnedichPoetry

ISBN: 9781784379544304 pages

Available in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Publication date: 1st June 2015€ 17.00

Maria Rybakova was born in Moscow. She studied Greek and Latin in

Russia, then in Germany and subsequently in the USA where she is

now teaching the subject. Her fi rst novel, Anna Grom and her Ghost

was published in 1999. Several novels and short stories followed.

Maria Rybakova is a recipient of numerous literary awards in Russia,

including Students’ Booker Prize, Eureka Prize, Serguei Dovlatov

Prize, Antologia Award, Th e Russian Prize, Globus Award. Her novels

have been translated into German, Spanish and French. Gnedichis

her fi rst book to appear in English.


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� e Investigator is set in the mid 20th century USSR. With Joseph Stalin at the

helm the post-war Soviet society struggles to rebuild and heal the nation of its

multiple wounds. Nothing comes easy. Th e authorities are being confronted

with new and quite creative criminal structures that shatter socialist ideals.

A young woman is murdered in a typical Soviet town somewhere in Ukraine.

In the spirit of the era everyone is a suspect. Many theories of the crime emerge

and to solve the mystery an investigator is being summoned - a strong man,

former intelligence offi cer, tested by war. Now his purpose is in fi ghting

malignant elements in the entrusted to him territory. But he is not the only

hero in this story - there’s also a plural protagonist with a loud and obnoxious

voice desperate to be heard - this voice is exactly the reason why Khemlin wrote

Th e Investigator, a striking novel about Soviet life that has never been revealed

before.

Margarita Khemlin is a Jewish-Russian author and winner of the Rus-

sian Booker Prize and the Big Book Prize. Khemlin began with a mod-

est dishwashing job in a café decades ago while working hard to fulfi ll

her writing dream. She never gave up and many manuscripts later she is

a prolifi c and celebrated novelist in today’s Russia. Since 2012 Khemlin

is also one of the jurors of Th e O’Henry Award in the USA.

Margarita Khemlin

Th e InvestigatorNovel

ISBN: 9781784379650338 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 30th October 2015€ 18.30

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“� is is a must-read book, it will change you,” critic Mikaël Demets has written. “It is the

result of painstaking work over a period of 15 years. It is an immensely valuable document

related to the history of Chernobyl and examining the disaster which occurred there from all

possible angles. 1968: the fi re at the nuclear power plant and the real risk of an explosion

which might have wiped Europe off the map, and the fate of the so-called liquidators –

800,000 young Soviet citizens who were sent there to try to limit the consequences of the

accident at the power station, amid incredible levels of radiation which not even the electricity

systems of robots could survive. It was a tragedy for these people, who had been completely

abandoned by the authorities, and who died in the most horrifi c of circumstances after

being exposed to inhuman dosages of radiation. � e reader then fi nds out what happened

next: the scale of the catastrophe was deliberately underplayed. If people had known the

true extent of the disaster, the practice of using nuclear power might have come to an end

altogether – (and there would have been no Fukushima, nor any of the other catastrophes

which the nuclear power industry cannot guarantee it will be able to avert, Tchertkoff adds).

� is outcome was unthinkable, of course, for there was too much money at stake: the West

had joined the Soviet leaders in hiding the true level of danger posed by this event. � ey

all sought to draw a line under Chernobyl and move on. � e book contains a wealth of

documents from the time: selected with care and easy to read, they give us an insight into

modern-day Belarus. � e country was home to peasants who were not aware of the risks

posed by radiation inside their food, without which they would simply have died of hunger.

� ere are countless diseases which still exist today because no-one is doing anything to fi nd

a cure for them, barring a handful of experts who are trying to save the people. What have

they achieved? � e claims they make in their works are refuted, and their pleas for help are

rejected. � e remarkable doctor Y. Bandzhevsky was arrested, sentenced and tortured. � e

book is frightening, gripping, soul-destroying and deeply alarming; it brings us face to face

with the cynicism, self-centred approach and scorn of the big organisations as regards human

lives. Fortunately there is a handful of people who are stubbornly fi ghting back against all

this, despite the fact that it is not a fair fi ght.”

Wladimir Sergeevich Tchertkoff began his career as a documentary-maker rather than

a professional writer, although he felt a keen sense of envy and admiration about great

works of literature from his childhood onwards.

‘� is is a must-read book, it will change you...’ MIKAËL DEMETS


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Wladimir Tchertkoff

Th e Crime of ChernobylTh e Nuclear Goulag

Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781784379315Available in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDF

Hundreds of books have been writ-

ten about Chernobyl, from short

works to lengthy studies. It was the

biggest radiation catastrophe in the

history of Mankind, and few will be

left unmoved after gaining a closer

insight into what happened. Amid

the vast panoply of works on Cher-

nobyl, Wladimir Tchertkoff ’s book

� e Crime of Chernobyl - a Nuclear

Goulag has an important place.

‘� is is a must-read book, it will change you...’ MIKAËL DEMETS

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Having spent years in a coma, a female protagonist is anxious to lead a normal

life. Her miraculous recovery is riddled with falling in and out of our time

continuum - she wanders through history in her imagination as if it were

her backyard. Notwithstanding her condition, her peers are going through a

real change of their own echoing events that engulfed Russia in the past few

decades. In Multiple Personalities, life is a masquerade and its participants are

characters from classic world literature racing towards destination unknown.

Th e question they all are asking is whether the traditional notion of time’s

fl ow from the past to the future is the correct one. Who has the answer?

Tatyana Shcherbina

Multiple PersonalitiesNovel

ISBN: 9781784379346168 pages


Publication date: 15th June 2015€ 18.30

Tatyana Shcherbina is known in Russia for her poetry and prose,

as well as numerous essays and translations from French. Her early

works had been self-published in the USSR to avoid censorship, and

it was only in the new Russia that she gained public recognition. She

recieved various literary awards and is considered one of Russia’s most

celebrated female writers.


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A Man of Change is a gift from the Foundation of the First President of the Rus-

sian Federation B.N. Yeltsin otherwise known as Th e Yeltsin Fund, produced

in cooperation with Glagoslav Publications and distributed with the aim to

preserve the knowledge and memory of Russia’s fi rst President.

Boris Yeltsin will be remembered as the fi erce, daring political leader who

fought for democratic ideals of his nation during an unprecedented crisis when

the Soviet empire had already fallen apart and new emerging nations had not

yet fi rmly established themselves in the region. Russia took over from the pre-

viously mighty union of nations, but the country had to be rebuilt and its

leadership needed to be reaffi rmed.

During the years when others were abandoning the sinking ship, Boris Yeltsin

showed a remarkable strength of character and took it upon himself to salvage

the nation despite unfavorable odds. Yeltsin created a stronghold for the new

Russian governance, and this book is about a man who worked until it was his

time to go, and kept his promise to his native land.

A Man of ChangeA study of the political life of Boris

Yeltsin

Th e President B. Yeltsin

Centre Foundation

Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781784379360546 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 25th February 2015€ 22.55

Th e President B. Yeltsin Centre Foundation

Founded in November 2000, “Th e President B. Yeltsin Centre” Foun-

dation is a non-profi t organization whose main aim is to give the youth

of Russia the opportunity to reach their creative potential. Th e Founda-

tion uses its infl uence to support young people, cultivating their talents

in various fi elds, including education, science, art and sport. Th e Foun-

dation also carries out studies of historical and political foundations

reforms that took place in Russia, and the role of President Yeltsin in

Russian and international politics.

Th e Foundation is working to nurture peaceful and friendly relations

between the world’s nations, off ering help in the battle against social

and religious confl icts. In order to achieve these various goals, the char-

ity has become a committed contributor to international humanitarian

work.

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Marina Tsvetaeva: � e Essential Poetry includes translations by Michael M. Naydan and

Slava I. Yastremski of lyric poetry from all of great Modernist Russian poet Marina Tsve-

taeva’s published collections and from all periods of her life. It also includes a translation

of two of Tsvetaeva’s masterpieces in the genre of the long poem, “Poem of the End”

and “Poem of the Mountain.” Th e collection strives to present the best of Tsvetaeva’s

poetry in a small single volume and to give a representative overview of Tsvetaeva’s high

art and development of diff erent poetic styles over the course of her creative lifetime.

Also included in the volume are a guest introduction by eminent American poet Tess

Gallagher, a translator’s introduction and extensive endnotes. Naydan and Yastremski

have previously published a well-received annotated translation of Tsvetaeva’s collection

After Russia with Ardis Publishers. Th e fourteen previously published translations from

the After Russia collection have been revised for this volume.

A tragic fi gure in Russian literature, Marina Tsvetaeva is mentioned in the same heights

of her distinguished contemporaries Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris

Pasternak. She published her fi rst collection of intimate lyric poetry at her own expense

in 1910 under the title Evening Album, which garnered positive reactions from several

prominent poets, who by happenstance reviewed it. She published her second collec-

tion Magic Lantern in 1912 and a compilation from her fi rst two collections From Two

Books in 1913. Both publications marked her early years in poetry. To follow was her

mature period that was shadowed by a romantic fi asco and childbirth in Tsvetaeva’s

life, and social turbulence in the old Russia that impacted her family. Despite severe

hardship, Tsvetaeva’s creative output was on the rise during the years of the Russian

Civil War from 1917-1922. Her daughter Irina died of malnutrition at age 3 in 1920,

a tragedy that sparked a series of poems that came out in the following years. Typical of

Tsvetaeva in that period was creating lyrical diaries that closely followed events in her

life in chronological order.

‘It was an evening of music and tenderness, Everything in the cottage garden blooming.’ MARINA TSVETAEVA


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Marina Tsvetaeva - Th e Essential PoetryPoetry

ISBN: 9781784379582164 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 15th May 2015€ 18.30

“Marina Tsvetaeva holds a very

special place in my memory

of the search for women writers who

might off er examples

of what to admire and to which we

might aspire.”

TESS GALLAGHER

‘It was an evening of music and tenderness, Everything in the cottage garden blooming.’ MARINA TSVETAEVA

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Since Maidan in Kyiv and Russian presence in the Crimea, Ukraine has never

been the same. In 2014, the country is deeply divided by the confl ict im-

posed on the Ukrainians. But since nobody actually asked the nation, author

Oleksandr Shyshko decided to take matters into his own hands and look for

the answer to the ultimate question – who are the Ukrainians and what do

they want.

Shyshko spent his time researching the national identity of native Ukraini-

ans, and as he went he stumbled on a discovery that led to yet another ques-

tion – where is Ukraine going, the so-called Quo vadis? of the Ukrainian

people. His fi ndings and critical comments gave birth to this new book that

is now for the fi rst time being published in English.

Oleksandr Shyshko

To Get UkraineNon-fi ction

ISBN: 9781783840250246 pages


Publication date: 28th April 2015€ 18.99

Oleksandr Shyshko is an oxymoron. In the past a formidable ex-

ample of Homo Sovieticus, Shyshko is now an authority on the in-

ternational environmental law with multiple publications on record

and a successful consultant in the fi eld of fi nance, credit and foreign

capital. Th roughout his life Shyshko never stopped learning, and the

eff ort paid off in the form of a PhD degree in Law, another degree in

Finance, and fl uency in a number of European languages including

English.


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Th e literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by

politicians – fi rst-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three

volumes of recollections – but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts,

journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev’s Politburo, public fi gures now

long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff .

Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsin’s biography when the politician

was still alive. In his work the author has used not only publicly accessible doc-

uments that have been printed or otherwise made accessible but also interviews

that are published for the fi rst time.

In this unique biography of the fi rst President of the Russian Federation au-

thor consistently describes events of Yeltsin’s life, capturing and conveying his

unique personality with all the contradictions of his character and principles

that determined public attitude towards Yeltsin. Some saw him as an outstand-

ing builder of the new Russia, others - as a destroyer of the great state. But

whoever he was de facto, the decade of his rule shook the world.

Boris Minayev

Boris YeltsinThe Decade that Shook the World

Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781784379223572 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 22nd February 2015€ 22.85

Boris Minayev is a Russian writer and correspondent. Minayev has

worked for many Russian venues and is currently serving as Edi-

tor-in-Chief of the journal Medved.

Boris Minayev is known for his children’s books and novels for mature

readers. One of the most famous works of his that is being widely quot-

ed in the media is his biography of Russia’s fi rst president Boris Yeltsin,

fi rst published in the series ‘Lives of Extraordinary People’.

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Ten years of personal experience with the Russian prison system translates into a series of over-

arching shorts stories about the characters Mikhail Khodorkovsky meets behind bars – and,

through their eyes, fi rst and foremost about the entire system of bureaucratic criminality, and a

human tragedy hidden so well.

Many a time Khodorkovsky resorts to personifi cation of the despicable treatment of prisoners

inside the Russian justice system, but the stories embrace one common theme – that of human

passionate voices for freedom and an outcry against injustice.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky (born 26 June 1963) is a Russian businessman and former oligarch, as

well as philanthropist, public fi gure and author.

In 2003 Khodorkovsky and Roman Abramovich were jointly named as Person of the Year by

Expert. In 2004, Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia (with a fortune of over $15 bil-

lion) and one of the richest people in the world, ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires. He had

worked his way up the Communist apparatus during the Soviet years, and began several busi-

nesses during the era of glasnost and perestroika. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he

accumulated wealth through the development of Siberian oil fi elds as the head of Yukos, one of

the largest Russian companies to emerge from the privatization of state assets during the 1990s.

He was arrested on 25 October 2003, to appear before investigators as a witness, but within

hours of being taken into custody he was charged with fraud. Th e government under Vladimir

Putin then froze shares of Yukos shortly thereafter on tax charges. Th e state took further actions

against Yukos, leading to a collapse of the company’s share price and the evaporation of much of

Khodorkovsky’s wealth. He was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2005.

While still serving his sentence, Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were

further charged and found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering in December 2010,

extending his prison sentence to 2014. After Hans-Dietrich Genscher’s impassioned lobbying

for his release, President Vladimir Putin pardoned him, releasing him from jail on 20 December

2013

Th ere is widespread concern internationally that the trials and sentencing were politically moti-

vated. Th e trial process has received criticism from abroad for its lack of due process. Khodork-

ovsky lodged several applications to the European Court of Human Rights, seeking redress for

alleged violations by Russia of his human rights.

‘He was considered to be a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.’


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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Bajesvolk (Dutch edition)Novel

ISBN: 978949142561580 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 10th December 2014€ 17.45

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

‘He was considered to be a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.’

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Asystole is a novel about love of life in its purest, more instinctive and intimate form.

It’s also a novel about human faith in its existence and a desire to experience this love.

Author Oleg Pavlov places his character — a boy who grows to be a

man and is clearly personifi ed by the writer’s own outlook on life — in

impossible and familiar circumstances, impossible not to relate to.

Laconic and ‘to the point’ observations of Pavlov’s protagonist as he goes, are

chilling at times. Th ey pierce through fl esh right to the bone — the quality

only the naked truth can have.

Asystole is moreover about the by-stander eff ect, about a disconnected and

malfunctioning society and a struggle of one not to merge into the faceless

mass of many. Modern, deeply thought through and heartfelt, this novel is an

examination of the physics of the human soul.

Tranlsated from the Russian by Arch Tait. Oleg Pavlov

AsystoleNovel

ISBN: 9789491425264Available in Paperback, Hardback,

Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 28th April 2015

Born in Moscow in 1970, Oleg Pavlov is a critically acclaimed, award

winning author who puts social and personal themes at the core of

his writing. Pavlov has a military background. Some of the lessons he

learned during his military service in some of the most inhospitable

places where he had witnessed heart wrenching tragedy became the

inspiration for his narrative, often immediate, sharp and absolute.


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Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna’s Diary, while being a historical document, is not

the kind that would give a reader an idea of the time or the personality of the

author by describing daily hassles. Th e Empress, in fact, fi lled many pages with

short spells, lyrics, poems and comments she encountered in the works of JR

Miller, Th omas à Kempis, La Rochefoucauld, Wordsworth, Longfellow and

others. Words like duty, humility, perseverance, self-sacrifi ce, and dedication

are key concepts here.

On paper these might be words, but they represent the life of a woman who

held a rather solitary position at the Russian court. Daughter of the German

Grand Duke Louis IV and the English Princess Alice, Alix, as was the German

name of Alexandra Feodorovna, was an unloved outsider. Despite the loss of

her homeland Hessen-Darmstadt, she was happy and passionately devoted

herself to her family.

In this selected fragment, Tsarina off ers us a glimpse into her soul and reveals

the source from which she drew her strength. Her conversion to the Russian

Orthodox Christianity turns out to be not that much for the sake of her

marriage but for the sake of her living soul: these notes reveal her deep devotion

to her faith. Th e three diff erent parts of the diary - Marriage and Family Life

(1899-1904), Wise Words (1908-1913) and Th e Garden of the Heart (1917)

off er a lot of wisdom and refl ect the spirit of 2014.

Translated by Ineke Zijlstra.

Tsarina Alexandra’s Diary Dutch editionNon-fi ction

ISBN: 9781783840250PaperbackEPUB/PDF/KindlePublication date: 30th January 2015€ 17.25

Born a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Alix of Hesse

and by Rhine, was given the name Alexandra Fedorovna upon being received into

the Russian Orthodox Church and married to Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the

Russian Empire. Th e Empress consort of Russia, her husband and children were

executed in1918 by Bolshevicks.

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Sasha “Sankya” Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation stuck between eras.

Th ey don’t remember the Soviet Union, but they also don’t believe in the promise of

opportunity for all in the corrupt, capitalistic new Russia. Th ey belong to an extremist

group that wants to build a better Russia by tearing down the existing one. Sasha,

alternately thoughtful and naïve, violent and tender, dispassionate and romantic,

hopeful and hopeless, is torn between the dying village of his youth and the soulless

capital, where he and his friends stage rowdy protests and do battle with the police.

When they go too far, Sasha fi nds himself testing the elemental force of the protest

movement in Russia and in himself.

Originally published in 2006, Sankya is even more relevant today as a prism through

which to view the recent large-scale actions against Vladimir Putin. It is Prilepin’s fi rst

novel and is widely considered his best.

Translated from the Russian by Maria Gusev and Jeff Parker with Alina Ryabovolova.

Zakhar Prilepin, one of Russia’s most acclaimed and widely translated contemporary

authors, was born in 1975. He is the author of fi ve award-winning novels, three short

story collections, and several works of nonfi ction. His works have received the top

literary prizes in Russia. He lives in Nizhny Novgorod, where he is the regional editor

of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Originally published in 2006, Sankya is

a cult sensation in Russia, where it won the Yasnaya Polyana Award and was shortlisted

for the Russian Booker and the National Bestseller Prize.

‘Probably the most important writer in modern Russia’ NEWSWEEK


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Zakhar Prilepin

SankyaNovel

ISBN: 9781783840168Available in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 8th April 2014€ 17.25

“Prilepin is the biggest event in today’s

Russian literature; his language reminds

us of Tolstoy.”

TATYANA TOLSTAYA

“� e novel is so vivid that it seems to be

almost extremist.”

KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA

‘Probably the most important writer in modern Russia’ NEWSWEEK

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Th is biography of the famous psychiatrist and hypnotist is written by one of

Messing’s closest friends. Tatiana Lungin spent a lot of time around Messing

and kept a diary of things he did, circumstances and events that played an

important role in his life.

Born a Polish Jew, Wolf Messing ran away from home at early age and soon

discovered his psychic gift. He gained an international reputation as the

world’s greatest telepath as he toured the capitals of Europe, where he met

Albert Eistein and Sigmund Freud. In 1937, after Messing publicly predicted

the downfall of the Th ird Reich, he was forced to fl ee to Russia. In the

USSR Messing gained a rare celebrity status. Even Joseph Stalin himself was

intrigued by his ability to infl uence thoughts at a distance.

Th is book not only depicts a detailed portrait of the great personality, but

also provides an interesting insight in parapsychology and psychic research

behind the Iron Curtain.

Translated from the Russian by Cynthia Rosenberger and John Glad.

Tatiana Lungin

Wolf Messing Th e True Story of Russia’s

Greatest Psychic

Biography


Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 9th May 2014

€ 17.99

Tatiana Lungin was a Moscow journalist and a close friend of Wolf

Messing and his wife and assistant Aida. Messing employed Tatiana

specifi cally to prepare his life story. And their friendship lasted for

over thirty years before his death in 1974. Tatiana Lungin conducted

meticulous records of all the circumstances of Messing’s life,

impressions regarding the man with an extraordinary destiny and a

mysterious soul.


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Th e novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeyev’s experience growing up amidst

the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated

his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin’s personal interpreter, and rises

rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader’s inner circle. Th e

book refl ects the family’s prestigious – and yet precarious – position as members

of the nomenklatura.

However, unquestioning devotion to the Communist Party does not come

to young Victor so easily as it had for his father: growing up, he begins to

write stories classifi ed as ‘obscene literature’ by the party. Like Erofeyev

himself, Victor gets involved in the world of dissident literature, violating

Soviet censorship laws and being expelled from the Writers’ Union. His

actions result in the end of his father’s career, just at the point when he hoped

to be appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Aff airs.

Translated from the Russian by Scott D. Moss.

“Victor Erofeyev, the exuberant new iconoclast of Russian literature” THE INDEPENDENT

Victor Erofeyev Good StalinNovel

ISBN: 9781782671114Available in Paperback, Hardback, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 25th June 2014€ 17.99

Victor Erofeyev is a living classic of Russian literature, one of the most

acclaimed Russian authors abroad, and a dissident who was described

in a recent documentary about his life as ‘the Russian libertine’. In 1992

he was awarded the Nabokov Award, and in 2006 was made a member

of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Erofeyev served as editor of

the anthology, � e Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He is also a

contributor to � e New Yorker magazine and hosts a popular program

on Russian television.

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On June 3, 1943, two bodies are discovered at the Great Stone Bridge, in the heart of

Moscow. Th ey are the teenage off spring of two of Stalin’s favourites: Volodya Shakhurin,

the son of the People’s Commissar for the Aviation Industry, and the stunningly beautiful

Nina Umanskaya, 15 years of age, the daughter of the former Soviet ambassador to the

USA. By all accounts, the former shot the latter before turning the gun on himself.

� e Stone Bridge is a detailed historical reconstruction of the Stalinist era as seen through

one man’s seven-year investigation into the case of ‘young wolves’ - a Nazi-inspired

secret society inside an elite Kremlin school. Based on a true story, � e Stone Bridge

resurrects actual historical fi gures and brings to light offi cial documents from NKVD

case fi les. Th e books shines the spotlight on a past with which the country has never

properly come to terms, and which therefore - tragially - has a poisonous eff ect on

present-day Russia.

Translated from the Russian by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas.

A professional journalist, Alexander Terekhov has contributed to Ogonek, a top Russian

magazine, and worked for the editorial teams of various publications. During his time

at the newspaper Top Secret, Terekhov came across an item about two youngsters who

perished in 1943 at the Stone Bridge in Moscow. He fi rst featured the story in one of

his short works, but later on embarked on a quest for the truth that lasted several years.

Th e outcome of Terekhov’s research provided the premise for his novel � e Stone Bridge,

eventually winning him the Big Book Award in 2009. Alexander Terekhov is known

outside Russian for his sharp, topical satire. He has published several novels and short

stories, which have been translated into English, French, German and other languages.

‘Stone Bridge, the bitter fruit of the Putin era is postmodern and anti-nostalgic’ LONDON EVENING STANDARD


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Alexander Terekhov

Th e Stone BridgeHistorical thriller

ISBN: 9789081823968500 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 31st March 2014€ 21.00

“Instead of the standard

Russian problems,

What is to be done? Who is to blame?,

Terekhov’s novel raises postmodern

(or post-Soviet) questions: Who am I?

What is history?”

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘‘� e concept statement that this book

is, it’s fi lled with deep, multifaceted

thinking and the vastness of ideas. An

achievement for the reader, and the

critic.”

DMITRY BYKOV

‘Stone Bridge, the bitter fruit of the Putin era is postmodern and anti-nostalgic’ LONDON EVENING STANDARD

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Empire of Corruption is Vladimir Solovyov’s attempt to share his opinions

on Russia’s ways of dealing with corruption. With a certain irony, Solovyov

calls the issue ‘the Russian national pastime’, explaining why in the country

where everyone is supposedly fi ghting corruption, corruption still rules.

Th e author’s detailed research into the corruption structure in Russia, with

concrete examples and historical references, is now available to the reader in

the English language. Solovyov goes further than just talking about the basics

of this evil phenomenon; the author suggests a method, a personal path each

citizen of Russia may follow to avert corruption in their country.

Translated from the Russian by Matthew Hyde.

“� e author did not exaggerate or applied labels but chose the position of a wise

observer, thus helping the reader to form his own point of view on the issue. Dis-

tinctive features of the book are - the depth of analysis and fascinating narration.”

ROSPIL INFO

Vladimir Solovyov

Empire of Corruption Non-fi ction


Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 15th November 2014

€ 17.99

Vladimir Solovyov is a famous Russian journalist, TV and radio host

and a public person. His career began after graduating from one of

Russia’s main institutes of technology and obtaining a PhD degree in

economics. At fi rst, he taught science in high school, then spent two

years teaching economics at Alabama State University.

His bibliography counts more than two dozen titles on most urgent

topics in modern Russia.


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Russia’s rich history is full of secrets: there’s not another country in the world

with so many skeletons in its closet. Vladimir Medinskiy’s new book off ers the

reader the opportunity to get better acquainted with some myths about Russia

in an a quick way.

Th e book covers some of the most interesting, colourful and controversial debates

in Russian history and the most popular myths about Russia: lessons from the

Bastille and the Civil War, the last testament of Peter the Great, amongst many

others. In his book the author tackles some of the most pressing questions about

Russia: whether you can trust Russians, the meaning of progress in Russian

terms, who really won at the Battle of Borodino two hundred years ago and why

Russians call Napoleon ‘the consummate liar’.

In this book, Medinskiy diligently unravels the myths surrounding this vast

and complex nation, picking them apart to uncover the truth about Russia and

her fascinating history.

Translated from the Russian by Christopher Culver.

“Professor and politician Vladimir Medinsky has explored negative stereotypes

surrounding Russians, such as laziness, brutality and drunkenness. His books

sparked vicious debate.” THE TELEGRAPH

Vladimir Medynskiy

Myths about Russia Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781782670865Available Paperback, HardbackMobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 15th December 2014€ 17.99

Vladimir Medinskiy is a Russian statesman, professor, essayist and

novelist. Since May 2012 he has held the post of Minister of Culture

of the Russian Federation. Although he is the author of several popular

books on advertising, PR and history, his Myths about Russia series is

Medinskiy’s most famous, having been the bestselling Russian popular

history series of recent years.

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Children’s Fashion of the Russian Empire is a book of photographs that has

been compiled by the famous Russian fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev.

Th e book is all about children’s clothing and fashion in Russia in the age of

the Tsars, from the 1860s to 1917.

Presented in the form of an antique photo-album and featuring over 400

photographs from the author’s private collection, Children’s Fashion of the

Russian Empire is unique in both its content and the way it is presented.

Th e story of children’s dress and fashion is divided up into decades and

accompanied by texts written by the author, in which Alexander Vasiliev

describes all the key trends and developments in the evolution of children’s

fashion.

A world-famous fashion historian, collector and playwright, Alexander

Vasiliev is also a fi ne lecturer and has more than thirty books to his name,

including albums such as Russian Fashion. 150 Years in Pictures and � ree

Centuries of European Fashion. He has staged over 100 productions at

leading theatres in 25 countries around the world. Alexander Vasiliev is an

honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and has been awarded

the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Diaghilev and

Nizhinsky medals.

‘� e photos in this album plunge the viewer not only into the history of children’s fashion of the era, but the history of Russia itself.’ RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES


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Alexander Vasiliev

Children’s Fashion of the Russian Empire Book of photographs

ISBN: 9781783840304Available in Paperback, Hardback, PDFPublication date: 10th October 2014€ 22.95

“Alexander Vasiliev’s book is not only

about clothes, but also about the country’s

culture and children upbringing”.

MARIE CLAIRE RUSSIA

‘� e photos in this album plunge the viewer not only into the history of children’s fashion of the era, but the history of Russia itself.’ RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES

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Fifty Highlights of the Russian Literature contains detailed summaries and

profound analyses of the most famous works of Russian literature (novels, short

stories, plays, poems, etc.)

In contrast to most literature compendia, the book is not centered around

the authors but around their works. Th e two volumes together cover a period

of one and a half century – from Eugene Onegin till � e Gulag Archipelago.

Th e fi rst volume, focusing on the “Golden Age”, contains descriptions of

works by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and others, while

the second volume, focusing on the “Silver Age” and the Soviet period,

describes works of Chekhov, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn and

others.

Th e volume is very useful as a reference tool for scholars and students but is at

the same time written in a style which is comprehensible for everyone interested

in Russian literature, inspiring them to read the original works.

Maarten Tengbergen

50 Highlights of the Russian Literature

Dutch editionNon-fi ction

ISBN: 9781782670667 (Part 1)ISBN: 9789491425639 (Part 2)

PaperbackMobi/EPUB/PDF

Publication date: 29th December 2014€ 21.95

Maarten Tengbergen was born in the Netherlands and studied Slavic

Languages and Literature at the University of Groningen. After his

graduation, he taught Russian at this university and translated three

novels of Maxim Gorki and about twenty short stories from diff erent

Russian writers.

He is a member of the Flemish PEN Centre and the founding father

of the “Club Russe des Institutions Européennes”, conceived to spread

the knowledge of Russian culture within the European institutions

and to combat prejudices dating back to the Cold War.


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Th is novel revolves around the life of Archana Guha, whose unique destiny

became the subject of continuous media attention for nearly twenty years in

India, Europe, USA and Japan.

One night in1974, Archana, her brother’s wife and a family friend who

happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the

police, because Archana’s younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist

underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for

armed insurrection. When Archana’s brother is caught, the three women are

sent to prison indefi nitely, along with him, on trumped-up charges.

Her ordeal in the torture chamber of the Kolkota police leaves Archana

paralysed in both legs. Lying helplessly on her mattress, she loses hope of ever

returning home and walking again. After Archana’s brother is released from

prison, he initiates a public campaign against the torturers, which the family

is sucked into. His pursuit of revenge becomes a way of life which tries to take

Archana hostage for a second time.

Th is is a psychological drama about exceptional, indomitable people, but also

about the hell human beings create. It is a political drama about torture as a

means of combating terrorism, and about terrorism as a reaction to state terror.

It is a human drama about survival, about how to hold on to your humanity

when everything has been taken from you.

Translated from the Russian by Melanie Moore and Clare Kitson.

Dina Yafasova

Don’t Call me a Victim! Drama

ISBN: 97817838402712Available in Paperback, Hardback,Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 1st October 2014

Born in Uzbekistan, Dina Yafasova worked as an accredited

correspondent in Central Asia for the Danish and other international

media. For results of her investigative journlistic work being published

internationally, Dina was harassed by the Uzbek security services, and

after a series of severe interrogation, repression and attacks forced to

leave their homeland. Since 2001 Dina lives in Denmark, where she

initially worked in a Danish international organization. Dina made her

debut as a writer in 2006 with a book of autobiographical prose.

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Heroes of the 90s is a book composed by journalists of the newspaper Kom-

mersant. Th e book sheds light on the transformation of the USSR and the

country’s social, state, fi nancial, economic and civic institutions into a new state

— the Russian Federation. Th e work covers Russia’s fi rst decade as a new coun-

try, the turbulent 90s that formed Russia’s reality today. Heroes of the 90s revisits

the storming of the White House, the allocation of vouchers in attempts to set

up a new economy of private ownership, Boris Yeltsin and the Chechen wars,

hired assassins, Ponzi schemes and fi nancial crises, Boris Berezovsky, Anatoly

Chubais and others.

For the fi rst time in history, Heroes of the 90s off ers to the English speaking

reader a rare opportunity to learn about the developments in the post-Soviet

Russia from the perspectives of the Russian journalists who have spent years

investigating the ups and downs of the period.

Translated from the Russian by Huw Davies and William Keenan.

“Heroes of the 90s. People and money, written by business correspondents, is some-

thing of another summing-up or an alternative textbook on the most recent history.

Seems more like the latter.” AFISHA.RU

A. Soloviev, V. Dorofeev

and V. Bashkirova

Heroes of the 90s

Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781782670414Available Paperback, Hardback

Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: July 2014

Authors of Heroes of the 90s are journalists and editors of the newspaper

Kommersant, the fi rst daily business publication in Russia. Th e team of Kom-

mersant saw its purpose in delivering news as a working tool for entrepren-

eurs. No evaluations, no author’s own conclusions – just pure facts.


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It’s not only the beautiful name of the country this book is about - ‘White

Russia’ - that piques the reader’s interest; to this day Belarus remains a blank

spot on the map for many people. Previously diffi cult to fi nd, publications

on Belarusian history are a potential treasure trove for the English language

reader, holding the story of a nation whose territory is larger than some

European countries.

Th roughout its history, Belarus has been continuously included in various

state formations such as Kievan Rus’, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the

Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Lubov

Bazan’s book is a detailed narration of all these meaningful milestones in the

history of Belarus. Th e book presents a thorough but fascinating chronological

history of the country.

Th e book gives the reader plenty of leeway to form their own conclusions

about the historical material she presents: the book covers diff erent

theoretical viewpoints on important points such as the ethnic background of

the Belarusian people and their ethnic and national identity, the origins of

the language, and the historically complex union between the Orthodox and

Catholic churches.

Translated from the Russian by Callum Walker.

Lubov Bazan

A History of BelarusPopular science

ISBN: 9789491425059Available in Paperback, Hardback,Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 30th August 2014

Lubov Bazan is a historian, art analyst and translator, was born in Belarus

where she graduated from the Faculty of History at the Pedagogical

University and the post-graduate School of Art at the Academy of

Science. Following her graduation, she worked as a research associate

at the Vitebsk Historical Museum and professor of the History of Art

at the Institute of Technology. In 1988 Bazan became the director of

the Vitebsk Municipal Art Gallery, at the same time working as the

television writer and hostess of TV shows about art.

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Elected for the third term in March 2012, Russia’s President is by far one of

the most infl uential and mysterious politicians in the world.

Regardless of the keen attention Vladimir Putin has been receiving world-

wide, a proper edition of his biography is hard to fi nd. Putin is a deep and

personal account of the President’s life, created as a result of the authors’

careful investigation that took place over the period of six years. To gather

facts, Chris Hutchins traveled across Russia and met with everyone who had

known Putin prior to his rapid rise in politics, from those who knew him as

a child and teenager to people who remembered him as a young intelligence

service offi cer.

Nevertheless, in this book, the authors strove to create a biography of a per-

son fi rst and foremost, and only then of a politician. Th ey wanted to high-

light what makes Vladimir Putin laugh and shed a tear, what his friends and

his wife think of him, how rich he actually is and what he really thinks about

oligarchs. Two famous journalists, Chris Hutchins and Alexander Korobko,

answer these and many other questions, and lift the veil of secrecy that sur-

rounds Vladimir Putin.

Translated from the Russian by Anna Ravve and Annelies de Hertogh.

C. Hutchins and A. Korobko

Putin Dutch edition

Biography

ISBN: 9781782670568Paperback

Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 15th June 2014

Chris Hutchins is a famous journalist with years of experience in es-

tablished British media such as Daily Express, Today and � e Sunday

Mirror. Hutchins publishes several biographies of famous people, in-

cluding the ones that shed light on the mysteries of Great Britain’s

Royal family, the Onassis dynasty, Russian oligarch Roman Ab-

ramovich and � e Beatles.

Alexander Korobko is a Russian journalist and television producer,

currently living and working in London. In 1994, Korobko left Rus-

sia to work as a reporter in USA, Canada, UK. Today, Korobko owns

a TV channel Russian Hour TV.


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Th e book sheds light on how Sberbank of Russia was transformed from the

old-school institution with outlived Soviet practices into a decent member of

the world’s fi nancial elite and one of the richest brands on the planet.

Sberbank reform was an unprecedented event in the history of Russian

business. Never before such a large post-Soviet establishment has undergone

such a radical and total reorganization according to western patterns.

Initiator of the Sberbank reform in 2007 is the ex-minister and well-known

liberal German Gref, whose ambitious plan was to turn this huge, unwieldy

institution into an advanced fi nancial company that would join the global

fi nancial elite. Wins and losses of Gref ’s team became not just a personal

achievement or the bank’s chief failure. Th ey essentially answered the key

question of Russian business: can people in Russia work on the same level as

people in the West?

For the purpose of this book, journalist Eugeny Karasyuk conducted dozens

of interviews with employees of Sberbank on diff erent levels. Th e book is

written with skill, but using accessible and fascinating language. Th e result is

a breathtaking economic thriller with a remarkable story of how progressive

management techniques were implemented in that reality.

Sberbank: � e Rebirth of Russia’s Financial Giant will be interesting to anyone

seriously considering reforms in one’s company, and those who are curious

about doing business with Russia.

Translated from the Russian by Lewis White.

Eugeny Karasyuk

Sberbank: Th e Rebirth of Russia’s Financial Giant Non-fi ction

ISBN: 9781782670919Available in Paperback, HardbackMobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 1st May 2014

Eugeny Karasyuk is a journalist, author of numerous articles on busi-

ness and management in leading business publications (� e Company’s

Secret, Smart Money). He published a series of reports on companies in

Russia, introducing Japanese management. Th is made inevitable the

author’s interest to a grand renewal of Sberbank which drew inspiration

from the ideas of the Japanese corporation Toyota.

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Andrei Tarkovsky died in a Paris hospital in 1986, aged just 54. An internationally

acclaimed icon of the fi lm industry, the legacy Tarkovsky left for his fans

included Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Nostalgia and a host of other brilliant works.

In the Soviet Union, however, Tarkovsky was a persona non grata.

Longing to be accepted in his homeland, Tarkovsky distanced himself from all

forms of political and social engagement, yet endured one fi asco after another

in his relations with the Soviet regime. Th e Soviet authorities regarded the

law-abiding, ideologically moderate Tarkovsky as an outsider and a nuisance,

due to his impenetrable personal nature.

Th e documentary novel Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross provides a

unique insight into the life of the famous fi lm director and a man whose

life was by no means free of unedifying behaviour and errors of judgment.

Lyudmila Boyadzhieva sets out to reveal his innate talent, and explain why

the cost of such talent can sometimes be life itself.

Translated from the Russian by Christopher Culver.

Lyudmila Boyadzhieva

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross

Biography

ISBN: 9781782671015304 pages


Publication date: 18th February 2014€ 18.90

Lyudmila Boyadzhieva is an outstanding Russian documentary

writer. Her novels, novellas and short stories fi rst began appearing in

print nearly two decades ago under various pen names. Her works

are a synthesis of various genres, striking combinations of suspense,

adventure and love stories. Boyadzhieva’s work on Andrei Tarkovsky

is one of the latest in her series of documentary novels examining

the lives of outstanding fi gures from Russia and elsewhere, such

as Frank Sinatra, Mikhail Bulgakov, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna

Akhmatova.


41

Women’s prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior

to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades

scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged.

In this collection of stories you will fi nd an entire gamut of these

Ukrainian women writers’ experiences that range from deep

spirituality to candid depictions of sexuality and interpersonal

relations. You will fi nd tragedy and humor and on occasion humor in the tragedy.

You will fi nd urban prose, edgy, caustic, and intellectual; as well as prose

harkening back to village life and profound tragedies from the Soviet past that

have left marks of trauma on an entire nation.

Th is is a collection of Ukrainian women’s stories, histories that serve to tell

her unique stories in English translation. Substantial excerpts from novels and

translations of complete shorter works of each author will give the reader deep

insight into this burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary Ukrainian wom-

en’s prose.

Seventeen diff erent translators from around the world have contributed

translations to the volume.

Herstories An Anthology on New Ukrainian

Women’s Prose Writers

Compiled by Michael M. Naydan

ISBN: 9781909156012446 pagesAvailable in Paperback, Hardcover, Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 17th March 2014€ 21.40

Michael M. Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian

Studies and teaches Ukrainian and Russian language and literature at

Th e Pennsylvania State University. He is a prominent translator from

Ukrainian and Russian with more than twenty fi ve books translated or

edited by him.

42

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun,

Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal,

set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan’s rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the

country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet world.

Spanning three generations and stretching from the 1940s to the 1990s, the

four distinct parts that make up Solar Plexus intertwine to tell the tale of a group

of friends who grew-up around the same courtyard in Baku. Each section

is told from a diff erent perspective as the friends’ passions, deceits, rivalries

and disappointments play out against the shifting turmoil of those decades:

from the Great Patriotic War and Stalin’s Purges, to the industrial institutes and

Russifi cation of the ’50s and ’60s, through to the struggle for independence

and violence of the early ’90s.

Mixing heart-wrenching romance, surreal humour, complex moral dilemmas

and philosophical refl ection, this saga in four parts is a rich and multi-layered

book that tackles big themes within the most engaging of narratives. By the

time we reach the last page, we have been touched by lives that most of us

would previously have been unable to imagine.

Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfi led.

Rustam Ibragimbekov

Solar Plexus A Baku Saga in Four Parts

Novel


Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 15th May 2014

Rustam Ibragimbekov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1939. He is

an internationally renowned and multi-award winning screenwriter,

dramatist and producer. He holds State awards for contributions to

the arts from both Azerbaijan and Russia. His writing credits include

more than 40 fi lm and television scripts, plays and prose. Close to

Eden (1993) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Eu-

ropean Film Award for Best Film of the Year and was nominated for

an Oscar. In 1994 Burnt by the Sun was awarded the Grand Prix at

Cannes and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.


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Two twin sisters, natives of Dobratyche, a small Belarusian village on the Buh

river close to the border with Poland, set out to examine the events that led to

granny Makrynya’s unexpected death. Th eir trek quickly turns into a murder

investigation. As the twins uncover new facts of the crime, more questions need

to be answered. But will they? A rural intrigue continues to hold the villagers

fi rm in its grasp until the very resolution.

Today mostly associated with the personality of President Lukashenko, Belarus

remains terra incognita for the rest of the world. Babina’s surprisingly fresh

portrait of today’s Belarus celebrates the country’s diverse demographics be it

business, education, culture or just the way people go about their daily errands.

Translated from the Belarusian by Jim Dingley.

“For an impression of provincial Belarusian life, this vivid novel reveals some of the

undoubted physical attractions of Belarus, as well as the cruelty and harshness of the

lives of many who live there”. Professor Arnold McMillin

Natalka Babina

Down Among the Fishes Novel

ISBN: 9781782670766Available in Paperback, Hardback,Mobi/EPUB/PDFPublication date: 30th November 2013

Natalka Babina was born in Belarus, close to the border with Poland

and Ukraine, and graduated from Belarusian Institute of Technology in

Minsk. Babina worked at the editorial departments of two Belarusian

newspapers. Since 1994, she published her works in the independent

newspaper Nasha Niva. Since 2006, she became a journalist at the same

venue, also collaborating with other presses in Belarus and Ukraine.

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Masterfully fulfi lled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on

Ukrainian studies, this fi rst ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings

out Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage.

As a foundational text, � e Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing

the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine’s written language and

Ukrainian literature. However, yet in more than 150 years since Shevchenko’s death

in 1861, there has never been a complete English translation of his profoundly

infl uential compilation of poetry. A prophet for the Ukrainian people, Shevchenko

never realized his dreams of living in a free and independent Ukraine.

Th e fi rst editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made

an enduring impact on Ukrainian culture. Th ere is no reliable count of how many

editions of the book have been published, but an offi cial estimate made in 1976 put

the fi gure in Ukraine at 110 during the Soviet period alone. Th at fi gure does not

include Kobzars released before and after both in Ukraine and abroad. A multitude

of translations of Shevchenko’s verse into Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages,

as well as Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, and many others attest to his impact on world

culture as well. Th e poet is honored with more than 1250 monuments in Ukraine,

and at least 125 worldwide, including such capitals as Washington, Ottawa, Buenos

Aires, Warsaw, Moscow and Tashkent.

Translated from the Ukrainian by Peter Fedynsky.

‘� e bard, the minstrel, the muse of Ukraine’ WHAT’S ON KIEV

Taras Shevchenko (1814-61) was a Ukrainian author and artist. � e

Kobzar, which he worked on for nearly 25 years, is considered his

masterpiece. His works are celebrated worldwide in museums and

cultural centres named after him. Aside from his literary work, his

paintings earned him many awards and a professional title from the

Imperial Academy of Arts.


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Taras Shevchenko

KobzarPoetry

ISBN: 9781909156548Paperback: € 20.90Hardback: € 28.15Illustrated Gift Edition: € 69.50Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 16.50Publication date: 11th October 2013

‘� e bard, the minstrel, the muse of Ukraine’ WHAT’S ON KIEV

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Anatoly Kudryavitsky

DisUnity

Two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the fi rst

novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky narrates about life in

modern-days Moscow and in emigration, in Germany. Th e novel deals with prob-

lems of selfi dentifi cation, national identity and the crises of the generation of “new

Europeans”. In the second novel, A Parade of Mirrors and Refl ection, the writer turns

his attention to philosophical aspects of creating artifi cial personalities lacking emo-

tions and experience of everyday life. Most of the clones fi nd themselves in Grodno,

Belarus, the city that, due to its geographical location, has always been an important

crossroad of Eastern Europe.

Commenting on a long poem by Anatoly Kudryavitsky’s, Joseph Brodsky once

remarked that he gives voice to Russian silence.

Translated from the Russian by Carol Ermakova and Siobhán McNamara.

Eugenia Kononenko

A Russian Story

He is young, intelligent, well educated, with patriotic sentiments. But certain

misunderstandings oblige him to fl ee from Ukraine, because in his native land he

is a misfi t, a superfl uous man. For some reason, everything in his life builds up to a

certain Russian scenario. So to what extent should one burden Ukrainians with the

outcome of this Russian Story?

Th is new book by Eugenia Kononenko deals with love and the quest for one’s own

identity, with the vaguely remembered circumstances rendering life nonsensical in

Ukraine during the last years of the empire and the early years of independence. It

considers the possibility of a mid-Atlantic meeting in today’s globalised world.

Translated from the Ukrainian by Patrick John Corness.

NovelsISBN: 9781782671060

Paperback: € 18.80 Hardback: € 21.45

Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: December 2013

NovelISBN: 9781783840113

Paperback: € 17.00Hardback: € 21.45

Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: November 2013


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Sergei Shargunov

A Book without Photographs

Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize and a contender for Th e Big Book Award,

A Book without Photographs follows the young journalist and activist through selected

snapshots from diff erent periods of his remarkable life. Th rough memories both sharp

and vague, we see scenes from Shargunov’s Soviet childhood, his upbringing in the

family of a priest; his experience of growing up during the fall of empire and studying

journalism at Moscow State University; his trip to war-torn Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan

during the revolution; his fi rst steps towards a fl edgling political career.

Th e book refl ects the vast social and cultural transformations that colour Russia’s recent

history and mirrors the experience of an entire generation of Russians whose lives and

feelings are inextricably intertwined with the fate of their homeland.

Translated from the Russian by Simon Patterson.

Nadezhda Ptushkina

Th e Battle of the Sexes Russian Style

Ptushkina’s plays refl ect her keen interest in constructing multidimensional characters

that refl ect the myriad ways people are aff ected by today’s turbulent world. Often

writing strong female roles, she does not shy away from exploring the sometimes

tragic implications that lie behind her comical, almost farcical scenes. Ptushkina

questions the nature of love, and explores the boundaries between the spiritual and

the base, the constructive and the destructive, that lie within every human being.

Her writing questions the relationship between ideals and reality, and between truth

and deception. In this new translation, western readers have a chance to discover

why Ptushkina’s work holds such a wide appeal in the Russian theatre.

Translated from the Russian by Slava Yastremsky and Michael M.Naydan.

PlaysISBN: 9781782670810Paperback: € 18.30Hardback: € 21.45Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: August2013

NovelISBN: 9781782670513Paperback: € 17.80Hardback: € 21.45Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: August 2013

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Maria Konyukova

Watching the Russians Dutch edition

Konyukova’s Watching the Russians is not just a merry ride through everyday life

in Russia. Full of self-irony, the book is a very practical guide from an insider

perspective, which aims to give the reader a fundamental understanding of the

country. Where do our judgments (both positive and negative) and our prejudices

come from? In answer to that question, Konyukova examines not only the culturally

coded diff erences in all aspects of life, but also explores the chaotic store of emotions

in various social settings surrounding Russians. She is thus eff ortlessly able to

refute common misconceptions and evoke understanding for Russian quirks and

idiosyncracies, all with a healthy dose of humor.

Translated from the Russian by Els de Roon Hertoge and Ineke Zijlstra.

Leonid Andrejev

Grand Slam and Other StoriesDutch edition

After his debut in 1901 Leonid Andrejev became one of the most popular writers

in pre-revolutionary Russia. In his fi rst novels he introduced signature elements

that would become integral to his later works: terminally ill patients, fear of death,

existential desperation, forms of madness and hysteria, and typical settings – a

mental hospital, an infi rmary or someone’s deathbed. Andreev’s active period as

a writer spanned twenty of Russia’s most turbulent years. Feelings of despair and

uncertainty, provoked by war and revolution, made their way into his work. Many of

his stories mix delusion and reality, creating a sense of personal tragedy that assumes

global proportions.

Translated form the Russian by Otto Boele and Amy Bakkens.

Non-fi ctionISBN: 9781909156395

Paperback: € 21.50Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 13.80

Publication date: August 2013

Collection of storiesISBN: 9781782670056

Paperback: € 21.00 EPUB/PDF/Kindle: € 9.95Publication date: May 2013


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Dmitry Glukhovsky

METRO 2033Dutch edition

Th e year is 2033. Th e civilized world has been destroyed and the human race is

almost extinct. Cities have been reduced to rubble and rendered uninhabitable by

radiation. It is now twenty years since the catastrophe, and stewardship of the Earth

has already passed from man to new life-forms – creatures that have mutated in

response to the radiation and are better adapted to the new world than humans. Th e

age of man is at an end.

Translated from the Russian by Paul van der Woerd and Els de Roon Hertoge.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

METRO 2034Dutch edition

Th e year is 2034. Th e world succumbed to the consequences of a nuclear war. Large

cities are gone from the face of the Earth, smaller ones are disconnected from the

rest of the planet. Last survivors spend their days hiding in bunkers and bomb shel-

ters, the biggest one being the Moscow Metro. Everyone who had managed to reach

Metro during the city’s bombing, saved themselves. For them, Metro became the

Noah’s Ark after the Flood.

Th e planet’s surface is contaminated with radioactive debris and populated by

mutants. Habitable living conditions exist only underground. Metro stations have

turned into self-governed city-states, while tunnels are being dominated by darkness

and angst. Sevastopolskaya is one station that, like ancient Sparta, is being protected

by its inhabitants who manage to stay alive at an incredible cost.

Translated from the Russian by Paul van der Woerd and Els de Roon Hertoge.

Science fi ction ISBN: 9789491425004Paperback: € 26.15Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 15.70Publication date: June 2012

Science fi ctionISBN: 9789491425448Paperback: € 25.00Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 15.20Publication date: October 2013

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Serhiy Zhadan

Depeche Mode

A poet and novelist whose work has been variously compared to Rimbaud, Charles

Bukowski and Irvine Welsh, Serhiy Zhadan’s fi rst novel Depeche Mode depicts

Ukrainian youth during the turbulent 1990s. Described by the author as “a book

about real male comradeship,” the novel follows the unemployed narrator and his

friends, Jewish anti-Semite Dogg Pavlov and Vasia the Communist, on their adven-

tures around Kharkiv and beyond.

Against a background of social disintegration, slowly eroding Soviet mores and rap-

idly encroaching Western culture, the three comrades drink gratuitous amounts of

vodka and embark on a quest to fi nd their missing friend Sasha Carburetor to tell

him about the suicide of his one-legged stepfather. Despite containing some darker

themes, Depeche Mode takes an irreverent look at life; Zhadan is not afraid to mix

philosophical musings and grotesque narrative with moments of slapstick comedy.

Translated from the Ukrainian by Miroslav Shkandrij.

Larysa Denysenko

Th e Sarabande of Sara’s Band

Th e novel revolves around the male protagonist, the journalist Pavlo Dudnyk, who

takes his schoolhood friend Sara Polonsky as his second wife. When Pavlo moves in

with Sara, he doesn’t realize at fi rst that he’s also “married” into her extended family,

Sara’s band of Polonskys, with their myriad quirks and manifestations of peculiar

behavior.

Th e novel presents a number of small slices of life and is fi lled with lively repartee.

Th ere are many comic moments, and the novel is saturated with a great amount of

word play and humor. It gives the reader a good deal of insight into the everyday

lives, loves and tribulations of Ukrainians living today.

Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Svitlana Bednazh.

NovelISBN: 9781909156845


Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.90Publication date: April 2013

NovelISBN: 9781909156692


Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: January 2013


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Elvira Baryakina

White Shanghai

Some called the place the ‘Splendour of the East’; others the ‘Whore of Asia’. A

melting pot of diff erent nations, fused by war and commerce, this was the Shanghai

of the 1920s.

Th e Great Powers are greedily exploiting China for its cheap labour and reaping

the cruel rewards of the opium trade. However, as a fl otilla of ships carrying the

remnants of the defeated White Army enters Shanghai, the uneasy balance of this

frenetic international marketplace comes under threat.

Elvira Baryakina’s White Shanghai refl ects the greatest traditions of the Russian clas-

sics. Her years of research in libraries and archives around the world have engendered

a rare kind of literature which, by blending a multinational cast of exotic characters

against the backdrop of the turbulence and fervour of the early XXth century, sends

the reader on a breathless journey of passion, politics and crime.

Translated from the Russian by Anna Muzychka and Benjumin Kuttner.

Lee Mandel

Moryak

Th e novel Moryak revolves around the story of Lieutenant Stephen Morrison, a naval

offi cer sent by President Th eodore Roosevelt on a top-secret mission in 1905. Mor-

rison’s assignment is to work with British agent Sidney Reilly to kidnap Tsar Nicholas

II and remove him from Russia before he can sabotage the upcoming Portsmouth

Peace conference. Th e mission goes awry and Morrison is captured and sentenced to

death. Th rough a quirk of fate, he is instead sent to the infamous Russian prison on

Solovetsky Island. He soon catches the attention of the Bolshevik prisoners and their

growing interactions come to have devastating eff ects on the evolving revolution in

Russia, as well as the Allied war eff ort as the world descends into the chaos of World

War I. As events unfold and secrets are unveiled in an uncanny political intrigue,

Moryak in fact tells the life story of one man’s struggle for acceptance, him fi nding

his place and fi nding himself.

Historical novelISBN: 9781782670346Paperback: € 19.99Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: January 2013

Historical novelISBN: 9781782670469Paperback: € 19.99Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: February 2013

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Leonid Yuzefovich

Harlequin’s Costume

Th e year is 1871. Prince von Ahrensburg, Austria’s military attaché to St. Petersburg,

has been killed in his own bed. Th e murder threatens diplomatic consequences for

Russia so dire that they could alter the course of history. Leading the investigation

into the high-ranking diplomat’s death is Chief Inspector Ivan Putilin, but the Tsar

has also called in the notorious Th ird Department - the much-feared secret police -

on the suspicion that the murder is politically motivated. As the clues accumulate,

the list of suspects grows longer; there are even rumors of a werewolf at large in the

capital. Suspicion falls on the diplomat’s lover and her cuckolded husband, as well as

Russian, Polish and Italian revolutionaries, not to mention Turkish spies.

Harlequin’s Costume is the fi rst volume in a series whose main character is based on

the real-life Ivan Putilin, the Tsar’s Chief of Police in St. Petersburg from 1866 to

1892.

Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwarz.

Dmitry Rogozin

Th e Hawks of Peace

� e Hawks of Peace. Notes of the Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition

where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalit-

ies and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that

without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future

of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his

political diary Dmitry Rogozin contemplates on the complex relationship between

Russia and the West. In his behind-the-scenes account, Rogozin opens up about

certain mysteries of political stand-off s, military confl icts of the last two decades,

terrorist acts and hostage situations.

Th e book is addressed to politicians, historians, diplomats, experts and professional

military men, as well as a wider audience.

Translated from the Russian by Nadezhda Serebryakova and Camilla Stein.

DetectiveISBN: 9781782670292


Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: March 2013

Non-fi ctionISBN: 9781782670063




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Layla Alexander-Garrett

Andrei Tarkovsky: Th e Collector of Dreams

� e Sacrifi ce is Andrei Tarkovsky’s fi nal masterpiece. Th e fi lm was shot in Sweden, in

summer 1985 while Tarkovsky was in exile; it turned out to be his fi nal testament,

urging each individual to take personal responsibility for everything that happens in

the world. Day after day, while the fi lm was being made, Layla Alexander-Garrett

- Tarkovsky’s on-site interpreter - kept a diary which forms the basis of her book

Andrei Tarkovsky: � e Collector Of Dreams.

In this book the great director is portrayed as a real, living person: tormented, happy,

inexhaustibly kind but at times harsh, unrelenting, conscience-stricken and artistic-

ally unfulfi lled.

Translated from the Russian by Maria Amadei Ashot.

Hamid Ismailov

A Poet and Bin-Laden

A Poet and Bin-Laden is a novel set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century

against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and

beyond.

Th e story begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator’s haunting description of

the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in

Central Asia. Subsequent chapters shift backwards and forwards in time, but two

main themes emerge: the rise of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan under the

charismatic but reclusive leadership of Tahir Yuldash and Juma Namangani; and the

main character, poet Belgi’s movement from the outer edge of the circle, from the

mountains of Osh, into the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda, and ultimately to a meeting

with Sheikh bin Laden himself.

Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfi eld.

Non-fi ctionISBN: 9781782670001Paperback: € 21.90Hardback: € 27.60Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: December 2012

Reality novelISBN: 9781909156333Paperback: € 18.40Hardback: € 23.80Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 9.95Publication date: September 2012

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Elena Chizhova

Th e Time Of Women

� e Time of Women tells the story of three old women raising a small mute girl,

Suzanna, in a communal apartment in the Soviet Union of the 1960s. If the

authorities fi nd out Suzanna will be taken from her home and sent to an institution.

When her mother falls desperately ill, the grannies are faced with the reality of losing

the little girl they love – unless a stepfather can be found before it is too late. And

for that, they need a miracle. Memories of hardship in the fi rst cataclysmic half of

the century, as well as the loss of their own children, retain their power against the

background of everyday worries.

Translated from the Russian by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas.

NovelISBN: 9781909156210


Mobi/EPUB/PDF: € 11.95Publication date: January 2012

NovelISBN: 9781909156258



Zakhar Prilepin

Sin

Zakhar Prilepin’s novel-in-stories Sin has become a literary phenomenon in Russia,

where it was published in 2007. It has been hailed as the epitome of the spirit of the

opening decade of the 21st century, and was called “the book of the decade” by the

prestigious Super Natsbest Award jury. Now available for the fi rst time in English, it

not only embodies the reality of post-perestroika Russia, but also shows that even in

this reality, just like in any other, it is possible to maintain a positive attitude while

remaining human.

Sin off ers a fascinating glimpse into the recent Russian past, as well as its present,

with its unemployment, poverty, violence, and local wars – social problems that

may be found in many corners of the world. Zakhar Prilepin presents these realities

through the eyes of Zakharka, taking us along on the life-affi rming journey of his

unforgettable protagonist.

Translated from the Russian by Simon Patterson and Nina Chrodas.


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Igor Sakhnovsky

Th e Vital Needs Of Th e DeadNovel

Th is semi-biographical story of ‘sentimental education’ of a young man in a Russian

province chronicles his life from childhood to university years, with his fi rst love, to

an older woman, his attempt to break out of the provincial morass and the choices

he has to make. Th e book was highly acclaimed in Russia and fi rmly established Igor

Sakhnovsky as one of the most interesting Russian writers of today. Th e novel gained

Sakhnovsky the prestigious Hawthornden Fellowship.

Translated from the Russian by Julia Kent.

Publication date: August 2012

Eduard Kochergin

Christened with CrossesNovel

Th is prizewinning memoir is the unforgettable story of a young boy’s dangerous,

adventure-fi lled westbound journey along the railways of Russia. Desperately

longing for his native city and his Polish mother, he fl ees his orphanage in Siberia

soon after the end of World War II.

Th e main charachter on novel, Eduard, spends more than six years on the run,

experiencing close encounters with post-war Russia where life and fate have become

synonyms.

Translated from the Russian by Simon Patterson and Nina Chrodas.Publication date: July 2012Publication date: July 2012

Ales Adamovich

KhatynNovel

Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors,

Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the

Nazi occupation during World War II. Th e novel’s main character, Florian, presents

a retrospective narrative of genocide and other horrifi c crimes against humanity. Part

of the Belarusian cultural heritage, the book retains its relevance in today’s world,

where the scorched earth and scarred surface of our planet act as a warning to future

generations.

Translated by G. Kozlov, F. Longman and S. McKee. Edited by C. Stein.Publication date: June 2012

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Maria Matios

Hardly Ever OtherwiseNovel

Everything eventually reaches its appointed place in time and space. Maria Matios’s

dramatic family saga, Hardly Ever Otherwise, narrates the story of several western

Ukrainian families during the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and

expands upon the idea that “it isn’t time that is important, but the human condition

in time.”

Translated from the Ukrainian by Yury Tkacz.

Publication date: April 2012

Irene Rozdobudko

Th e Lost ButtonNovel

Th e taut psychological thriller � e Lost Button keeps the reader transfi xed. Th e novel

encompasses an entire era from the mid-70s of the previous century till the mod-

ern day with its geography stretching over the European region including Kiev, the

Ukraine’s periphery, Russia and Montenegro, and at last the United States.

Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan.

Uladzimir Karatkevich

King Stakh’s Wild HuntNovel

A jewel of Belarusian classic literature, King Stakh’s Wild Hunt is one of Karatkevich’s

most critically acclaimed works, and also inspired a 1979 fi lm adaptation. Based on

an ancient European legend, this masterpiece of suspense taps into the imagery of

the country’s rich cultural heritage to off er both a haunting piece of gothic intrigue

as well as a profound meditation on the destiny of the Belarusian people.

Translated from the Belarusian by Mary Mintz. Edited by Camilla Stein.

Publication date: December 2012

Publication date: June 2012

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Centraal BoekhuisErasmusweg 104104 AK Culemborg, the NetherlandsPOB address:Centraal BoekhuisPostbus 125 4100 AC Culemborg, the NetherlandsTel 00 31 (0)345 47 59 11 Fax: 00 31 (0)345 47 53 [email protected]

Centraal Boekhuis VlaanderenBaaikensstraat 2-D9240 Zele, BelgiumPOB address:Mechelsesteenweg 2032018 Antwerpen, BelgiumTel: 00 32 (0)5 245 69 40Fax: 00 32 (0)5 245 69 [email protected]

Westbooks396 Mill Point Rd, Victoria Park WA 6100, Australia Tel: (08) 9361 4211Fax: (08) 9361 [email protected]

Wheelers BooksPO BOX 305-404Triton Plaza, North Shore,Auckland, New ZealandTel: 0800 890 333 [email protected]

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Glagoslav Publications - Catalogue 2015

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