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In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories''. All the works are united by a mystical theme. The book consists of eight stories written by the writer in the early 1990s. [7] A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia [6] Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream; Sleep; Tai Shou ...
A 2009 OpenSpace.ru survey voted Pelevin as the most influential intellectual in Russia. Pelevin is known for not being a part of the literary crowd, rarely appearing in public or giving interviews and preferring to communicate on the internet. When he gives interviews, he talks more about the nature of his mind rather than his writings.
Orlando Figes cites the basic problem of the central agricultural zone being that 'the peasantry's egalitarian customs gave them little incentive to produce anything other than babies'; the birth rate in Russia at the second half of the 1800s were almost twice that of the European average, at about 50 to a 1000, with the highest rates in the ...
"A Werewolf Problem In Central Russia" "The Yellow Arrow" Novels "The Life of Insects" "Omon Ra" "Clay Machine Gun" ("Chapayev and Void", "Buddhas Little Finger") "Homo Zapiens" ("Babylon", "Generation "П") "The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur" "The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf" Dmitry Glukhovsky "Metro 2034" "Metro 2035 ...
For Victor Pelevin's short prose the main cycle-forming principle is the subjective mystical-philosophical orientation common to all the stories. The title of Pelevin's first collection was given by the story of the same name "Blue Lantern", where the image of the blue lantern acts as a mystical symbol of the netherworld, or rather the illusory border between the two worlds.
Thiess of Kaltenbrunn (Kniedini), also spelled Thies, and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf, was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692. At the time in his eighties, Thiess openly proclaimed himself to be a werewolf ( wahrwolff ), claiming that he ventured into Hell with other ...
Golden Ring of Russia; Great Stand on the Ugra River; Muravsky Trail; Oka (river) Political divisions of Russia; User:Benjamin Trovato/My Nogai; Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Apr 2013; Module:Location map/data/Russia Central Federal District; Module:Location map/data/Russia Central Federal District/doc; Module talk:Location map ...
It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and Kaliningrad). [citation needed] The 1967 book by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn The Peasants of Central Russia [1] defines the area as the territory from Novgorod Oblast to the north to the border with Ukraine in the south and from Smolensk Oblast to the west and Volga ...