Жар-Цвет (Fire-Blossom )
by and Alexander Amfiteatrov
"Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for the peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate neglected. While his wife is dying, Sasha, a young, educated woman, falls in love with Ivanov and determines to save him. Set in a country suffering from political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's first full-length play anticipates the explos...
Аскольдова могила(Askold's Grave)
by Михаил H and Mikhail Zagoskin
The Lady from the Sea (Classic Henrik Ibsen) (Methuen Drama Modern Plays)
by Henrik Ibsen
In a new translation by Pam Gems, the author of Stanley, Piaf and The Snow Palace.
Аспазия Ламприди . Дитя души (Aspasia Lampridy; Child of the soul)
by and Konstantin Leontiev
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elu...
Set amongst the whores, alcoholics, cynics and doss house dreamers of a Russia on the brink of revolution, The Lower Depths is a harrowing, violent and uncompromising portrayal of the human spirit at its lowest ebb, with destitution and death an ever present spectre.