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"The Admirer" by Anna Jane, summary
This 2019 book is a romantic psychological thriller where love is intertwined with dark family secrets and criminal intrigue. The author successfully creates a thick atmosphere of suspense, making you question the reality of what’s happening to the main character.
"Flights in Dreams and in Reality" by Viktor Merezhko, summary
Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko’s screenplay, written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, chronicles three days in the life of engineer Sergei Makarov on the eve of his 40th birthdayThe work became a landmark reflection of the midlife crisis and the era of stagnation, capturing the turmoil of a hero who, despite his intellect and charm, finds himself unable to find a place in the existing reality, ruining his own life and that of those around him.
Aristotle’s Politics, Summary
This treatise, written by the greatest ancient Greek thinker around 350 BC, lays the foundations of political philosophy and views the state as the natural form of human community.
"Striped Flight" by Alexei Kapler, summary
The screenplay for this eccentric comedy was written in 1961. The plot revolves around events aboard a Soviet cargo ship transporting a shipment of predators.
"Memorial Prayer" by Grigory Gorin, summary
This play is a theatrical adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s stories about Tevye the Milkman, created by the playwright in 1989. Grigory Gorin wrote it at the personal request of director Mark Zakharov specifically for the Moscow Lenkom Theatre.
"Monday Begins on Saturday. Screenplay" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, summary
The screenplay is based on the Strugatsky brothers’ novella of the same name, written in the 1960s. The work depicts the clash of the Soviet scientific and technical intelligentsia with the world of magic and Russian folklore.
A summary of Sergei Lukyanenko’s "Threshold"
This book is a science fiction novel published in 2019. The plot describes a paradox in the development of intelligence. Most civilizations inevitably destroy themselves in wars. They perish before reaching the fifth level of development and reaching deep space.
A summary of "Portrait of My Father" by Vadim Trunin
The text was written by a Soviet screenwriter in the second half of the twentieth century. The work tells the coming-of-age story of a Siberian boy, Kolya Burlakov. The book’s most important detail—the search for his father’s roots—takes place against the backdrop of the harsh life of workers in the taiga and tundra.
A summary of Sergei Lukyanenko’s "The Last Watch"
This book is the fourth installment in the acclaimed Others series, completed in 2005. The main intrigue revolves around an ancient artifact hidden by Merlin, capable of erasing the impenetrable barriers between the layers of the magical Twilight.
"The Grass Has Ripened" by Dmitry Darin, summary
This book is a profound poetry collection, published in 2008. The text seamlessly blends heartfelt confessional lyrics with grand historical poems, transforming the lyrical hero’s personal yearning for a vanishing rural Russia into a chronicle of national suffering.
"The Victims Have No Claims" by Arkady and Georgy Vainer, summary
This book is a classic Soviet crime novel, written in 1986. It intertwines a crime story with the moral and ethical issues of society. The most important plot point lies in the paradoxical situation: a man voluntarily takes the blame for a murder.
A summary of "The Abduction of Europa" by Evgeny Vodolazkin
"The Rape of Europa" is Evgeny Vodolazkin’s debut novel, published in German by the Munich-based Zwillinger Brothers in 2003 and later in Russian. It covers approximately a year in the life of twenty-year-old German Christian Schmidt—a period he describes as his "past life."
A summary of Emil Braginsky’s "Almost a Funny Story"
This book is a light, lyrical comedy, written in 1976. With warm irony, the text tells the story of the late awakening of feelings in two elderly people long accustomed to their solitude.
"The poet must be deeply unhappy and even moderately crippled"
MOSCOW. Publishing house "New Literary Review" has released a collection of selected prose of the writer and photographer Boris Kudryakov.
"The Right to Walk the Earth" by Arkady and Georgy Vainer, summary
This story was written by writers Arkady and Georgy Vainer in 1968. The text introduces the reader to the first high-profile cases of Inspector Stanislav Tikhonov and his supervisor, Vladimir Sharapov, depicting the difficult work of the police without unnecessary embellishment.