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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 ...
The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La Bête du Gévaudan, IPA: [la bɛt dy ʒevodɑ̃]; Occitan: La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the modern-day department of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767.
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.
"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 ...
It is the corrupt form of the West Slavic word volkodlak (Russian: волкодлак), meaning literally 'wolf-fur' or 'wolf-hide', denoting someone "wearing" a wolf's skin, a werewolf. [3] Other sources suggest that Pushkin borrowed and adapted the word from Lord Byron 's " The Giaour ", which contains a footnote claiming that the Greek word ...
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 ...
English: Map of Russian entities (yellow and pink) of the Central Russia region, within European Russia, excluding the North Caucasus and Kaliningrad (green). Русский: Карта регионов, относящихся к Центральной России
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 ...