A collection of short fictional stories and essays. "In a Moment" is about a bad trip along a country highway. "Bad Joke 4" tells the story of a closed socie...

The book contains stories: about three comrades who found themselves in a difficult situation, about a guy who drank moonshine, about Lilith, about an unknow...

The story presents a generalized image of a representative of the Russian intelligentsia who survived the events of the early to mid-twentieth century and en...

The 1st bad joke is the author’s reworking of a story about how a family, in which the youngest member is overly curious, is driving a car. The 2nd bad joke ...

Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov came into the system under Khrushchev and left it under Yeltsin. However, his memoirs are a look not only into the past, but also ...

In the autumn-winter semester of 1991 (September - December) I taught at Veslensky University in the USA. I taught two courses: “National Images of the World...

Everyone thinks that Masha is indecisive and weak-willed. Parents sold their tender, beautiful daughter to a rich husband, and he beats her, humiliates her a...

Georgy Pavlovich Tushkan (1906–1965) is a wonderful Russian writer, traveler, and veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He wrote little, but almost every book ...

Two habitats on earth: artificial urban and wild natural. They cannot influence each other. One person has been there and there. And found my destiny.

A dying baby and a restless angel. They find each other. The angel, bypassing the will of the authorities, independently determines his own security work, an...

—Who? Listen, ordinary people in darned clothes, who will say nasty things to me? – A warrior girl with a “Moral Patrol” badge in her hair (her hair is black...

The action of the novel “The Rich Are So Different” covers two decades separating the First and Second World Wars. By the will of the author, one or the othe...