A passionate defender of oil painting, Zaslavsky compares himself to a piano player caught in the world of disco with the mission of maintaining a legacy through interpretation and self-improvisation. (RAAC)
Anatoly Zaslavsky was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Soviet Union, in 1939. Graduated from the secondary art school in Kiev, 1957. He is a contemporary Russian artist whose works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.
