Ivan Bunin in 1933
“for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing”.
It was the first time a Nobel Prize had been ...
For a gentleman, straying away from your regular barber can be a pretty harrowing experience. It feels like cheating on your life-long companion. There’s also always that ...
The blockade was both unique in the scale of suffering and resilience exhibited. We can never imagine what it would have taken to survive 900 days (including 3 Russian ...