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Ariane, jeune fille russe (Ariane, A Russian Girl) is a 1920 novel by the French tennis player and writer Jean Schopfer, published under the pseudonym Claude Anet. It follows a young Russian woman who encounters a Don Juan and falls in love with him. It was first translated into English in 1927 by Guy Chapman and published by Knopf. [1]
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, [1] and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of pro
Night Watch (Russian: «Ночной Дозор») is a fantasy novel by the Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko, the first to feature his fictional world of The Others. The book was first published in Russia by AST in 1998. The story revolves around a confrontation between two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an ...
The novel was in general very favourably reviewed. The New York Times describing it as '"more of a good wine, vintage Amis: smooth, dry and not overpriced." [1] The Los Angeles Times called it "a wonderful new concert of plot and language that provokes both belly laughs and twinges of discomfort". [2]
The Bear and the Nightingale is Arden's debut novel and was published in January 2017 by Del Rey Books. Arden completed her diploma in French and Russian literature before moving to Hawaii for 6 months while writing her novel. Her fascination with Russian literature and history prompted her to write a novel that was set in medieval Russia ...
The Winternight trilogy has received positive reviews. Critics from Publishers Weekly praised The Bear and the Nightingale, stating "Arden’s debut is an earthy, beautifully written love letter to Russian folklore, with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate in 14th-century Russia."
According to the Social Security Administration, some Russian girl names that made the top 1000 baby girl names of 2022 include Anastasia, Nadia, Sasha, and Zoya.
Mary is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré and former White Guard Officer displaced by the Russian Revolution.Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, along with a young Russian girl, Klara, an old Russian poet, Podtyagin, his landlady, Lydia Nikolaevna Dorn and his neighbour, Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov, whom he meets in a dark, broken-down elevator at the beginning ...