![]() | An evening with Dmitry BykovThursday 27 May, 7pm, Apollo Cinema Dmitry Bykov is one of Russia most charismatic and controversial intellectual figures – an award winning writer, a phenomenal film buff and a successful tv and radio presenter. Dmitry will be interviewed by Alexander Kan from BBC World Service. They will be discussing today’s Russia, Bykov’s latest books, including Living Souls, which has recently been published in Britain, new Russian films and the crossover themes in Russian and and British culture (in Russian). The Page and The Fire: Poems by Russian Poets on Russian Poetsby Various Translated by Peter Oram Arc Publications, 2008, pp.132 An anthology of poems by the major literary figures in Russia, writing to, about, or in memory of other poets, following a tradition which started in the early years of the twentieth century and continued through the subsequent decades, more or less until the millennium. Humiliated and Insultedby Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated by Ignat Avsey One World Classics, 2008, pp. 391 Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not "at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and, above all, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. 'Among Animals and Plants' and 'Fro'by Andrey Platonov Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson and Eric Naiman New York Review of Books; 2007; pp. 58 The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov's vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky, Platonov was the writer who most profoundly registered the spiritual shock of revolution. Rossica 7/8Revelations in Colour Dionisy & KandinskyThis issue of ROSSICA is dedicated to two great Russian artists, Dionisy and Vasily Kandinsky who were divided by four centuries. Rossica 5The Seductions of Europe Prince Yusupov and his Arkhangelskoe This issue is dedicated to Prince Nikolai Yusupov and his magnificent estate Arkhangelskoe near Moscow. Prince Yusupov was one of the outstanding figures of the Age of Enlightenment. Rossica 5The Seductions of Europe Prince Yusupov and his Arkhangelskoe This issue is dedicated to Prince Nikolai Yusupov and his magnificent estate Arkhangelskoe near Moscow. Prince Yusupov was one of the outstanding figures of the Age of Enlightenment. Rossica 7/8Revelations in Colour Dionisy & KandinskyThis issue of ROSSICA is dedicated to two great Russian artists, Dionisy and Vasily Kandinsky who were divided by four centuries. |