Books – GI

Mikhail Lermontov’s Masquerade

I combined quotes from Mikhail Lermontov's Masquerade and images from strangelycompelling.tumblr.com At first I thought my idea wouldn't work...but it did...The combination of Russian classics and alternative editorials from the…

Talented Russian writer Valentin Pikul

Valentin Pikul, a popular historical novelist whose books are devoted to the various phases of Russian history. Born July 13, 1928. Died in Riga July 16, 1990. Total circulation of books…

Gambling theme in Russian literature/Queen Of Spades

The Queen of Spades (1890) II "I have come to you against my wish," she said in a firm voice: "but I have been ordered to grant your request. Three,…

Gambling theme in Russian literature

Gambling had a prominent place in the life of the propertied and educated class of XVIII - XIX centuries. It is not easy to explain the roots of this complex…

The books about dark sides of human soul

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Very strong novel about human feelings, which no absolutely positive or absolutely negative character. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Hippolytus by Euripides.…

Dans un mois dan un an

In all the novels I read by Sagan there is bitter contempt of love, betrayals, "trample" of people who love one or another character. The heroes of her novels are…

My Soviet Passport by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1929 and my Soviet Poster

I'd tear like a wolf at bureaucracy. For mandates my respect's but the slightest. To the devil himself I'd chuck without mercy every red-taped paper. But this ... Down the…

Anna Akhmatova “If I Do Not See You…”

If I do not see you – I feel: minutes, as centuries, are endless. If I once had seen you – Again suffers a heart’s wound, so merciless. If I…

In the Winter…with poems

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) is one of the greatest Russian poets of all time. Along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, she was one of the four great poets…

Don’t call my name. Don’t call my name, Alejandro.I’m not your babe. I’m not your babe, Fernando.

Best books about love triangles read by me: “Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would…