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A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail BulgakovTRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, ...
The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, ...
Justin WeirJustin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Bulgakov's The Master and ...
Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods
Preview9 Gender, sex, and the fantasy of the non-expressive in Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates Justin Weir The complexity of Sergei Parajanov's masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates (Tsvet granata, Armenfilm, 1969) is well known.
The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture
PreviewJelena Bogdanovic , “Invocations of Byzantium in Avant-Garde Architecture of the 1920s: Goetheanum and Zeniteum,” presented at the conference “Byzantium/ Modernism: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Avant-Gardes,”Yale University, April 20–22, 2012, 5; also: Easton, Herald of the New Epoch, 202. See also Sergei O. Prokofieff, The Heavenly Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia (Forest Row: Temple Lodge, 2000); Sergei O. Prokofieff, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New ...
The Heart Of A Dog
Mikhail BulgakovAn absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
Icons and the Name of God
Sergius BulgakovDiscusses the importance of icons in Orthodox theology and explains some the historical controversy surrounding icons.
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovTHE STORY: The action centers on the difficulties encountered by Professor Preobrajansky, an innovative medical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation), in his running battle with the management committee ...
Philosophical Approaches to Demonology
Preview... Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita ELVIRA BASEVICH The Politics of Possession: Reading King James's Daemonologie through the Lens of Mimetic Realism DUNCAN REYBURN Notes on Contributors Bibliography ...
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail BulgakovWhen he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught.
Photocatalysis
Valentin Nikolaevich ParmonCovering all major aspects of photocatalysis, including the latest findings and insights on catalyst design, kinetic studies, and reactor engineering, this is a semi-empirical how-to guide, based on the authors' extensive experience and a ...
The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)
Sergei LukyanenkoWalking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others.
Modern Biogeochemistry
Vladimir Nikolaevich BashkinFURTHER READING Samuel S. Butcher, Robert J. Charlson, Gordon H. Orians and Gordon V. Wolfe, Eds. (1992). Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Academic Press, London et al., 9-54. EgonT. Degens (1989). Perspectives on Biogeochemistry ...
Modern biogeochemistry
Vladimir Nikolaevich BashkinThis book aims to supplement the existing textbooks by providing modern understanding of biogeochemistry, from evolutionary biogeochemistry to practical applications of biogeochemical ideas such as human biogeochemistry, biogeochemical ...
Aktualʹnye problemy istorii sovetskikh Vooruzhennykh sil i ...
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bai͡uraвоенно-ветеринарному составу Красной Армии», установившему для них следующие звания: лейтенант, старший лейтенант, капитан, майор, подполковник, ... Мурашов, Г.А. Титулы, чины, награды / Г.А. Мурашов. - СПб.
Aktualʹnye problemy istorii sovetskikh Vooruzhennykh sil i ...
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bai͡uraвоенно-ветеринарному составу Красной Армии», установившему для них следующие звания: лейтенант, старший лейтенант, капитан, майор, подполковник, ... Мурашов, Г.А. Титулы, чины, награды / Г.А. Мурашов. - СПб.
Aktualʹnye problemy istorii sovetskikh Vooruzhennykh sil i ...
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bai͡uraвоенно-ветеринарному составу Красной Армии», установившему для них следующие звания: лейтенант, старший лейтенант, капитан, майор, подполковник, ... Мурашов, Г.А. Титулы, чины, награды / Г.А. Мурашов. - СПб.
Antler on the Sea: The Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far ...
Anna M. KerttulaWhen I asked how he had chosen a brigade, he answered that his odnoklassniki had invited him to work with them. Because Sergei was a hunter and had no previous experience with herding, the invitation was a big responsibility for his old ...
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More editionsThe author reports on the publication of Ne l'ko Brodskii: russkaia kul' V r i anekdotakh (Not only Brodsky: Russian culture in portraits and anecdotes) (New York: Slovo, 1988), text by Sergei Dovlatov, photographs by Marianna Volkova.
The Nabokovian
More editionsRev. of Justin Weir, The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov. The Slavonic and East European Review 8 1 , no. 3 : 54 1 - 543. KJiawaldah.LinaandGalinaKrivonos. Rev of Justin Weir, The Author as Hero: ...
Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War
Serge? Nikolaevich GoncharovUsing major new sources, including cables between Mao and Stalin and interviews with key actors, this book tells the inside story of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.
The Genome: A Novel
Sergei LukyanenkoA science fiction thriller by the author of Night Watch, the hit novel that inspired two major motion pictures Five months after the horrific accident that left him near death and worried that he’d never fly again, master-pilot Alex ...
Day Watch: Book Two
Sergei LukyanenkoThe second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series—the powers of Darkness and the forces of Light grow closer to war.
Night Watch: Book One
Sergei LukyanenkoFor a millennium, these opponents have coexisted in an uneasy peace, enforced by defenders like the Night Watch, forces of the Light who guard against the Dark.
The Mystery of the Resurrection in the Light of Anthroposophy
Sergei O. ProkofieffThe person in question was Richard Pollak (1867-1943), who came from a prosperous business family of Jewish origin in Prague and worked for several years with his wife Hilde on the ceiling paintings of the First Goetheanum. From his early ...
Current Topics in Complement
PreviewJ Mocco, Michael E. Sughrue, Andrew F. Ducruet, Ricardo J. Komotar, Sergei A. Sosunov, and E. Sander Connolly, Jr. 1. INTRODUCTION Ischemic stroke remains the leading cause of disability and third leading cause of death in the United ...
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