Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad, edited by Polina Barskova History & Politics where powerful rulers and dynasties

where powerful rulers and dynasties fought to gain control over rich gold seams and the unruly inhabitants of strategic valleys

pure and honest’ – Vladimir Nabokov

providing an in-depth examination of the networks of influence that define the country's political landscape

Иллюстрации в технике граттажа к «Алисам» сделала известнейшая голландская художница Флоор Ридер

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Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad, edited by Polina Barskova History & Politics where powerful rulers and dynastiesThis anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov, wrote these works in 1942, during the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941 1944). In striking contrast to state sanctioned, heroic "Blockade" poetry in which the stoic body of the