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"Mara and Morok: 500 Years Ago" by Leah Arden, summary
This book was written in 2021. It serves as a prequel to the main series, recounting events five centuries ago and revealing the origins of the Moroks’ gift to resurrect the dead.
"Mara and Morok: A Special Shadow" by Leah Arden, summary
This book is a direct continuation of the story of the resurrected servant of the goddess of death, written in 2020. The plot fully reveals the secrets of the protagonist’s past and the true motives of the rulers of the two warring states of Araken and Serat.
"Freemasonry and the Russian Intelligentsia" by Boris Bashilov, summary
This book is a historical and philosophical study, published in 1956 in Buenos Aires with funds from Russian émigrés. It is part of a multi-volume series on the history of Russian Freemasonry.
"The Wish Machine (screenplay). Option 2" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, summary
The Strugatsky brothers’ 1979 screenplay is a variation on the plot that inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s cult film, "Stalker."
A summary of "The Copper Box" by Dina Rubina
Published in 2015, this collection of short fiction draws on the intimate tones of travel writing. This book is a gallery of monologues from random fellow travelers, recounting the complex lives of individuals.
A summary of Georgy Polonsky’s "Cinderella’s Honeymoon"
This book is an ironic philosophical tale, written in 1995. It recounts the events following a lavish royal wedding. The author mercilessly shatters the illusion of cloudless palace happiness.
"Melpomene" by Alexander Devyatov, summary
Melpomene is a 2023 novel by Alexander Devyatov; it was published on Author.Today on February 1, 2023, and later appeared on book services as historical fiction with a romance and dramatic plot.
"Dead Island" by Nikolai Svechin, summary
"Dead Island" is a historical detective novel by Nikolai Svechin, published in 2014. Set in the spring of 1889, its main force is not a single mystery, but the entire system of Sakhalin’s penal servitude, where disappearances, forgery, and violence have long been commonplace.
A Month Beyond the Rubicon by Sergei Lukyanenko, Summary
"A Month Beyond the Rubicon" is the third and final novel in the "Changed" trilogy, published in 2021. Lukyanenko concludes the story of Maxim Vorontsov, a young Muscovite who has by this point undergone two Summonings and transformed into something unique: a Protector with abilities unlike any other Changed.
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic novel was published in 2005. The book is the fruit of a unique online experiment, where early readers directly influenced the plot, correcting technical details and suggesting logical steps to the author.
Metro 2034 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
This post-apocalyptic science fiction novel depicts the survival of the remnants of humanity in the Moscow subway. Created in 2009, this book is a grim chronicle of the Sevastopolskaya station’s hopeless struggle against an unknown threat and simultaneously a story about the search for lost humanity.
Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
This dystopian novel was written in 2015. This book is the finale of a post-apocalyptic trilogy about the survival of Muscovites underground after a nuclear war. The author abandons the mystical elements of the previous installments.
"The Mechanics of Happiness" by Manuk Mnatsakanyan, summary
The work of Armenian writer and engineer Manuk Mnatsakanyan was published in 1982. The text formed the basis for a screenplay depicting the lives of Yerevan residents burdened by routine concerns but still holding out hope for a better future.
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan, summary
"The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" is the last major book by American astrophysicist and science writer Carl Sagan, published in 1995Co-written with his wife, Ann Druyan, it became a kind of definitive statement by the scientist on why critical thinking and the scientific method are essential to society—especially when pseudoscience and superstition spread faster than sound knowledge.
"I am so hurt for people, so sorry for everyone, that’s why I write"
MOSCOW. Verdict of the jury of “Russian Booker”: the victory was awarded to Alexander Snegirev for the novel “Faith”.