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Forbidden Dreams
A young worldly Russian, a violinist, Vladimir Volkonsky, unexpectedly falls in love with an innocent voice student. Her name is Lara. He first sees her on stage from the orchestra where he is rehearsing for a concert. During the months leading into winter, Lara and Vladimir are warmed against the chilly Moscow nights by each other. They are awakened to a passion that previously each had found only in music. While that passion tragically is lost when Vladimir fulfills his childhood dream to leave his homeland, the spirit of her love sustains him in his new life in the United States. Set is Moscow and Richmond, Virginia, the tragic romance of Lara and Vladimir is revealed with sensual and ethereal passages, touching both the heart and the spirit. Filled with historical references to the last days of the Czar, the lives of musicians and brushes with celebrities, Forbidden Dreams is filled with passion, music and paranormal experiences.
Adventures of Siberian Cat Katerina
This captivating tale of 11 year old Irene and her Siberian cat Katerina will warm the hearts of children everywhere and take them on a journey of exploration. Irene and Katerina become Earth's ambassadors for an advanced alien race. They are given a glimpse of the future, where life 1000 years from now could be if Earth does not destroy itself.
The Case of Leonid Plyushch
There are people whose destiny it is to go far beyond the limits of their biography or background. They generalize many people's experiences and become symbols. The name of General Grigorenko has been such a symbol for five years. The same is true of the mathematician Leonid Plyushch.' These words, written by the Soviet scholar Igor Shafarevich, are likely to echo and re-echo in the mind as the reader absorbs this book. For Leonid Plyushch has become a symbol of the resistance to a crime, and the pages that follow present poignant and irrefutable evidence of that crime.
The Art of Compromise
Although the Russian novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov had published extensively before 1917 he considered that his literary career began only in 1922 with the short story Buryga. His talent developed rapidly in the comparatively free cultural climate of the first decade of the Revolution and by 1927 his characteristic style and themes were already formed. It was in this year, however, that the Communist Party began to impose its demands on the artists and intellectuals. Leonov's beliefs and values were incompatible with the Soviet version of Marxism but he tried to affirm them indirectly in his work through structure, imagery and allusion, while outwardly conforming to official demands....
The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak
These are the memoirs of Leonid Pasternak, a Russian painter of the twentieth century. He traces his life from its beginnings in a poor Russian family, through to his emergence as one of Russia's finest portrait painters, then to his exile from Nazi Germany and emigration to the UK.
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Leonid Leonow
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