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Near Moscow: Whitney Houston in the Soviet army The front page mainstream grief about the death of stars always makes me ask...
Caucasian holiday? The mountains catch your eye wherever you are in the Caucasus. Even when you...
Extremely obscure, very authentic, unbelievably Bulgakov-ish… At the hour of the hot spring sunset, two citizens appeared at Patriarch's...
Ivan Bunin was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933) for his work “The Accursed Days”, depicting an aristocrat's view of the harsh realities of the Soviet state after the Bolshevik Revolution. By that time he had already emigrated to Europe, as he did not see himself as compatible with Russia after the Revolution.
His enormous literary talent extended beyond writing – Bunin has also left a rich heritage of translation of the works of Longfellow, Byron, Tennyson, and Musset.