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"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.
"Remember Death" by Elena Topilskaya, summary
This detective novel by Elena Topilskaya, a StPetersburg prosecutor and writer, was published in the 1990s and is written in the first person. The protagonist, Maria Shvetsova, a senior investigator with twelve years of experience, handles several cases simultaneously, and her professional and personal lives are constantly intertwined.
"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 "Escape Attempt" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
This science fiction novella was written in 1962. This book is the authors’ first work in which the bright communist world of Noon collides with an immature, cruel feudal-slave civilization.
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.
Alex Keemen’s "The Last Dawn," Summary
This book is a 2020 science fiction story that serves as a prequel to the "Birth of the Gods" series. The plot follows the difficult moral choice of Commander Delion, who is forced to sacrifice his own fleet and an entire inhabited planet to save a small group of civilians and fulfill a cruel military order.
"The Last Man from Atlantis" by Alexander Belyaev, summary
This collection of short stories and novels was created between 1925 and 1935. The works are united by the theme of the ocean’s mysteries, the exploration of the deep sea, and the search for sunken ancient civilizations. The novel "Amphibian Man" was successfully adapted into a film.
A summary of "The Last Victim" by Alexander Ostrovsky
This book is a profound social comedy, written in 1877. The plot revolves around a young and wealthy widow, Yulia Tugina. Her blind love for a frivolous rake threatens her with ruin and shatters her illusions.
A summary of "The Last Autumn" by Alexey Pekhov
This book is a 2003 prose work detailing the tragic exodus of fairytale creatures familiar from childhood from their native world. The plot focuses entirely on the final hours of the Magic Forest’s existence before the final closure of the saving passage to another dimension.
"Look at Him" by Anna Starobinets, summary
"Look at Him" is a 2017 nonfiction book by Anna Starobinets based on real events: in November 2012, at 16 weeks of pregnancy, the writer was diagnosed with a severe fetal malformation—bilateral multicystic dysplasia of the kidneys, incompatible with life.
"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.
"Post 2. To Save and Preserve" by Dmitry Glukhovsky, summary
This book is a sequel to the post-apocalyptic novel about Russia disintegrating after a devastating civil war. Published in 2021, the story unfolds in Muscovy, a region cut off from the rest of the world, where a strict monarchy has resurfaced, and an unknown and deadly threat lurks beyond the Volga River.