The Unlucky Skeleton
Greg Afinogenov: Russian Magic Tales, 12 September 2013
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
edited by Robert Chandler.
Penguin, 466 pp., £9.99, December 2012,978 0 14 144223 5 Show More
edited by Robert Chandler.
Penguin, 466 pp., £9.99, December 2012,
Red Spectres: Russian 20th-Century Gothic-Fantastic Tales
translated by Muireann Maguire.
Angel Classics, 223 pp., £12.95, November 2012,978 0 946162 80 2 Show More
translated by Muireann Maguire.
Angel Classics, 223 pp., £12.95, November 2012,
Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
by Muireann Maguire.
Peter Lang, 342 pp., £48.53, November 2012,978 3 0343 0787 1 Show More
by Muireann Maguire.
Peter Lang, 342 pp., £48.53, November 2012,
“... writer Nadezhda Teffi. (Her refreshingly sympathetic take on Baba Yaga anticipates Gregory Maguire’s Wicked by five decades.) Each writer or collector is given a biographical note: some of these are even more interesting than the stories themselves. Olga Ozarovskaya, as it turns out, was one of Russia’s first female mathematicians as well as an ... ”