Books
automatic translate"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.
"The Newcomer" by Narine Abgaryan, summary
This autobiographical novella was written in 2011. This book is an honest chronicle of a young provincial woman’s adjustment to a foreign metropolis in the 1990s. The events are conveyed through the lens of sincere humor, everyday troubles, and colorful characters of a transitional historical period.
"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.
Clifford Simak’s "The Visitors" Summary
This book chronicles contact with non-humanoid intelligence, depicting the alien presence through social destabilization and the paralysis of the market economy under the influence of free gifts from space.
"The Final Problem" by Arturo Perez-Reverte, summary
This novel is an elegant literary play on the classic Golden Age detective canon, where fiction collides with reality. The story is told from the perspective of the elderly British actor Ormond Basil, once famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
"The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski, summary
This book opens the series about the mercenary hunter Geralt of Rivia, subverting familiar fairytale tropes through the cold lens of biological expediency, egoism, the professional witcher code, and the harsh laws of medieval reality.
Vadim Panov’s "The Last Admiral of Zagrata," a summary
This book is a steampunk and astropunk science fiction novel, published in 2011. The narrative revolves around a critical military and political crisis on the agrarian planet of Zagrata, where the interests of the monarchy, separatists, and an interstellar trading corporation clash.
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 Last Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, summary
The novel "The Last Tycoon" was written in 1940. The author died of a heart attack while working on the manuscript, leaving the book unfinished. The protagonist was based on executive producer Irving Thalberg.
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.