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Russians: then and now

a selection of Russian writing from the seventeenth century to our own day.

by Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Cover of Russians: then and now

This collection opens with three of the earliest recorded Russian folktales, followed by excerpts from the first Russian autobiography, and includes memoirs, historical accounts, fiction, and poetry; from seventeenth-century accounts of martyrs and miracle workers to twentieth-century poems of protest.

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