INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 13
Glossary 18
Introduction 21
1. LEONID ANDREYEV Once Upon a Time 43
2. FYODOR SOLOGUB Th e Invoker of the Beast 65
3. ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Gambrinus 73
4. ALEKSEI REMIZOV Th e Little Devil 100
5. ELENA GURO Th us Life Passes 131
6. ARKADY AVERCHENKO Four People 145 Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin 152
7. NADEZHDA TEFFI Black Iris 154
8. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Th e Red Crown 158
9. MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO Black Magic 165 Th e Female Fish 177
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10. ISAAC BABEL Gedali 185 Th e Rabbi 188 Th e Rabbi’s Son 190
11. MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV Family Man 193
12. LEV LUNTS Outgoing Paper No 27 200
13. VSEVOLOD IVANOV Th e Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara 209
14. ALEKSEI TOLSTOY Th e Viper 231
15. EVGENY ZAMYATIN Th e Flood 269
16. ANDREI PLATONOV Doubting Makar 297
17. DANIIL KHARMS Blue Notebook Number 10 315 Old Women Tumbling Out 315 Kushakov the Carpenter 316 A Dream 317 Th e Start of a Very Nice Summer Day 318 Th e Lynching 318
18. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lake, Cloud, Tower 320
19. SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY Th e Smoky Glass Goblet 328
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20. IVAN BUNIN Tanya 333
21. ANDREI SINYAVSKY Th e Tenants 351
22. VARLAM SHALAMOV Eulogy 365
23. FRIDRIKH GORENSHTEIN Th e House with a Turret 380
24. VASILY AKSYONOV “Victory” 405
25. YULI DANIEL Hands 412
26. KONSTANTIN VOROBYOV A German in Felt Boots 417
27. FAZIL ISKANDER My Uncle of the Highest Principles 430
28. VASILY SHUKSHIN Chudik 445 I Believe! 455
29. VLADIMIR TENDRYAKOV Bread for a Dog 466
30. YURY KAZAKOV You Cried Bitterly in Your Sleep 487
31. YURY DOMBROVSKY Little Arm, Leg, Cucumber . . . 505
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32. SERGEI DOVLATOV My Older Cousin 523
33. BULAT OKUDZHAVA Girl of My Dreams 542
34. TATIANA TOLSTAYA Th e Fakir 555
35. VIKTOR EROFEYEV Galoshes 576
36. VLADIMIR MAKANIN Surrealism in a Proletarian District 585
37. VLADIMIR SOROKIN Passing Th rough 604
38. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Th e Young 611
39. LEONID YUZEFOVICH Butterfl y. 1987 624
40. OLEG ERMAKOV Th e Last War Story 646
41. VIKTOR PELEVIN A Short History of Paint-ball in Moscow 676
42. LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA Th e Queen of Spades 694
43. YURY BUIDA More and More Angels 723 Th e Samurai’s Dream 726
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44. YURY MAMLEYEV Currency 728
45. IRINA POLYANSKAYA Snow Falls Ever So Quietly 737
46. LEV RUBINSHTEIN Teachers without Pupils, or from under the Rubble 741 Into the Mausoleum of Th ine 744
47. VLADIMIR TUCHKOV Th e Lord of the Steppes 751
48. LYUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAYA Never 757
49. MARINA VISHNEVETSKAYA Experience in Demonstrating Mourning 766
50. ANDREI LEVKIN Th e Dump 774
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