Reclaiming the legacy of Anna Bunina, Russia’s first woman poet
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘History crams a lesson down your throat:’ a thunderous poem on wartime by Russian poet Polina Barskova
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Witty and poignant, Paweł Pawlikowski’s From Moscow to Pietushki is an ode to reading and drinking | Film of the Week
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Rediscovering Boris Poplavsky: poet, exile and enfant terrible of Russia’s Silver Age
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        How American immigrant literature is empowering Jewish authors to claim their Russian roots
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Anton Chekhov: where to start with his literature
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Fyodor Dostoevsky: where to start with his literature 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Anna Akhmatova: where to start with her literature
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Bold and intimate: 2 poems by queer and feminist Russian poets
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Armenia’s Narine Abgaryan weaves a story of transgenerational trauma amid the folds of fairytale prose
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        France à la russe: a cosmopolitan guide to Russian Paris
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        St Petersburg’s Pushkin theme park will bring Russia’s greatest fairytales to life 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Baz Luhrmann to direct new Master and Margarita movie
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Journey back in time with these whimsical children’s poetry books from the Soviet Union
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        101 kilometres from Moscow, a writer-doctor lays bare the contradictions and intrigue of Russian life 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        “Learn to live with it, even forgive.” Russia’s bestselling author Guzel Yakhina on the traumas of Soviet history
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Yevgeny Vodolazkin: Russia’s prize-winning novelist on Orthodoxy, death and playing with time
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Tomorrow’s Tolstoy: publisher Yelena Shubina on the wait for a great novel about contemporary Russia