Katia Baghai and Victor Enyutin live near Seattle, Washington State. Victor emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 and has authored numerous books of poetry and prose. His books in Russian, published in California, include “The Sixteenth Republic: the Soviet Immigration to the West” (1982) as well as many collections of poems and surrealist prose. He taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz & Irvine as well as at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Katia studied psychology. They started a blog together, writing about arts, films, poetry, and socio-cultural issues, and taught film together.
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) was one of the most prolific Russian writers of the twentieth century. Babi Yar and Other Poems, translated by Anna Krushelnitskaya, is a representative selection of Ehrenburg’s poetry, available in English for the first time.
Young readers will love this delightful work of children’s verse by poet William Conelly, accompanied by Nadia Kossman’s imaginative, evocative illustrations.
A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.
The first bilingual (Russian-English) collection of poems by Aleksandr Kabanov, one of Ukraine’s major poets, “Elements for God” includes poems that predicted – and now chronicle – Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
A book of poems by Yulia Fridman.
“I have been reading Yulia Fridman’s poems for a long time and have admired them for a long time.” (Vladimir Bogomyakov, poet)