The Spontaneous Reflex By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky One of the Strugatsky's earliest stories explores the dangers of artificial intelligence. Fiction
Valley of New Life By Theo Elie One of the most significant and earliest (1922) works of Soviet scoff. Fiction
Vlas By Fyodor Dostoyevsky This extract from The Writer's Diary tells the story of a peasant's religious conversion, which Dostoyevsky turns into a discussion of the nature of Russian peasants. Fiction
In Crimea By Alexei Bayer An excerpt from the forthcoming, third, novel in Bayer's Matyushkin mystery series, looks back at the Russian Civil War in Crimea. Fiction
The Case of the Toy Iron and the Ice Cream By Irina Polyanskaya Sometimes what we hold dear is far less important than we think. Fiction
The Unworthy Knight By Kir Bulychev When you awaken the past, it is bound mess with the present, to say nothing of the future. Fiction
The Little Golden Calf By Ilya Ilf Chapter one of the award-winning translation of this classic novel of treasure hunting and cons. Fiction
Underground Moscow By Gleb Alexeyev A pair of adventurous souls and the long lost treasure of Ivan's Library. Fiction
