June 23, 2001

Book Picks - Folklore

by Linda DeLaine

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Osler Bailey, Tatyana Avanova (Editor)

Paperback, 1st ed., 464pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
May 1999

Encyclopedia of Russian
and Slavic Myth and Legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Hardcover, 392pp.
A B C-CLIO, Inc.
December 1998

Russian Gypsy Tales
James Riordan (Translator)
A. Gessler (Compiler)

Paperback, 160pp.
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
November 1992

Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev

Paperback, 661pp.
Pantheon Books
June 1976

Russian Folk Belief
Linda J. Ivanits Sophie Schiller (Illustrator)
Foreword by Felix J. Oinas

Paperback, 257pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
June 1992

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The Samovar Murders

Book four in the Matyushkin Case Files series is finally here, and just in time for Christmas. Let's face it, Poirot, Marple, Gamache, Holmes – they would probably not have had what it took to survive detective-ing in 1960s Moscow. Pavel Matyushkin, he's got the right stuff. Stoke up the samovar and get ready for a great mystery...

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

2001: Presidents Vladimir V. Putin and George W. Bush met face to face for the first time in Slovenia.

1992: U.S. President George H.W. Bush welcomed Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a summit meeting in Washington where they agreed in principle to slash strategic weapons arsenals by about two-thirds by 2003.

1983: Yuri Andropov elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a position equivalent to president.

1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts simultaneously.

1963: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space. (Vostok 6).

1961: Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requested asylum in Paris while on tour there with the Kirov ballet.

1955: Anatoly Chubais, politician, born

1940: Soviet troops invade Estonia.

1873: Antonina Nezhdanova, singer, born (died 1950).

1871: Sergei Bulgakov, philosopher, born (died 1944)

1671: Stenka Razin executed in Moscow

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