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The book's title draws from historical symbols of the Balkans. The black lamb "is the symbol, seen in a gypsy rite in Macedonia, of false -- and thus of impious -- sacrifice" while the grey falcon "is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389". [5]
B Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaak Babel (1894–1940) Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales Red Cavalry poster, 1919 Red Cavalry poster, 1920 Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) A Week Like Any Other Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) The Malachite Box Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov Bazhov ...
1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
The Metropol' Almanac is a collection of uncensored texts by famous writers, self published in Samizdat in Moscow in December 1978. [1] The collection was organized by Vasily Aksyonov, and counted with contributions from a number of Soviet writers, such as Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Vladimir Vysotsky, and one contribution from abroad, made by John ...
Book publishing companies of Russia (2 C, 24 P) Russian books (8 C, 18 P) ... Pages in category "Russian literature" The following 28 pages are in this category, out ...
Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs [] since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. [1]
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.