Twenty-five stories by a famous Russian writer and film director who wrote on simple people living in villages. The collection includes Stenka Razin, on a 17th

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Offers a brief profile of the Russian writer, and gathers his stories and essays about life in modern Siberia

The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author see