Georgy Gennys (1954, Moscow, Russia) is a poet, writer, and translator. In 1976, he graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages. Then worked in a publishing house and on television. He has authored several poetry books. His works have appeared in magazines and anthologies. In 2019 he was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize. He also translated from French and English.
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
Sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the Gulag, where he began to document the crimes against humanity of the regime he had served.
This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing with the effect of the war on their lives.