A Truly Unique Person By Evgenia Shcheglova A short essay recounting the author's friendship with Lydia Budogoskaya, a little known yet famous Russian writer who was gifted and uncommonly humble. Memoir
If You Can, Turn Around By Konstantin Azadovsky In which the author reminisces about his time spent with Brodsky, while the latter was sent to exile in the North. Memoir
No One is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten By Olga Bergholz A gripping memoir by the heroic Voice of the Leningrad Blockade, who also suffered through literary persecution. Memoir
Notebooks By Izrail Metter A poignant, humorous and telling memoir of a rare soul with a worthy backbone. Memoir
Diaries By Lydia Ginzburg In which Ginzburg meditates on the Russian Jewish community - to which she also belongs - and on its role in Russian culture. Memoir
Letter to Sofya By Fyodor Dostoyevsky In this letter to his niece, Dostoyevsky describes the thinking behind Prince Myshkin, the central character in his novel The Idiot. Memoir
Masha is Lying on the Table By Fyodor Dostoyevsky A diary entry Dostoyevsky wrote on the death of his first wife, which became an extraordinary and impassioned meditation on death, immortality and human relationships. Memoir
Letter Before Exile By Fyodor Dostoyevsky A letter the author wrote to his brother, immediately before his transport into Siberian exile. Memoir
Clear Ponds By Yuri Nagibin A truly wonderful memoir of life growing up along Moscow's boulevard, by a writer hardly published in English. Memoir
The Shopping Renaissance By Mikhail Bulgakov A consideration of what NEP wrought in Moscow, from one of Russia's greatest writers. Memoir
Khitrovka By Vladimir Gilyarovsky One of the most famous chapters from this classic work, about the seamy underbelly of Moscow at the turn of the last century. Memoir
