Alla Doubrovskaia is a prose writer. In the Soviet Union, she worked as a history teacher, a technical inspector, and a heat regulating technician. Since 1992, she has lived in America. Her prose was published in many Russian-language magazines, such as “Zvezda”, “Octyabr”, “Volga”, “Kreshchatik”, “Novyi Bereg”, “Interpoezia,” and “Zinziver”. Her two novels, “Lone Star” and “Egyptian House,” were published by “Aletheia” (St. Petersburg).
This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“Nina Kossman is equally at home in all genres of short prose: diary entries, mystical novellas, letters, autobiographical notes, and psychological sketches. She has good taste, a sober view of herself and others, and an innate gift for holding the reader’s attention.”
— Dmitry Bykov
This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
