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The Stone Bridge / druk 1

2014 || Paperback || Alexander Terekhov || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

The Stone Bridge tells the story of Terekhov's decade-long investigation into the case of the 'young wolves', and reveals some of the secrets behind the Kremlin's private school, a direct line to the Communist Party elite. The search for truth of the Stone Bridge incident requires the reader's patience: the historical authenticity of this work is supported by testimonies of witnesses trying to avoid an uncomfortable interrogation, supported by illustrations, documents and chronicles.On June 3...

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Dont Call me a Victim! / druk 1

2014 || Paperback || Dina Yafasova || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

One night in 1974, Archana, her brother's wife and a family friend who happens to be staying the night at their house, were taken hostage by the police, because Archana's younger brother, Saumen, was a member of a terrorist underground movement which is at war with the police and preparing for armed insurrection. When Archana's brother is caught, the three women are sent to prison indefinitely, along with him, on trumped-up charges. Her ordeal in the torture chamber of the Kolkota police leav...

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Solar Plexus

a baku saga in four parts

Paperback || Rustam Ibragimbekov || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Solar Plexus is a passionate family saga in four parts, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet world. Spanning three generations and stretching from the 1940s to the 1990s, Solar Plexus tells the tale of a group of friends who grew up around the same courtyard in Baku. Each section is told from a different perspective, embedded into the canvas of the shifting turmoil of those decades: from the G...

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Childrens Fashion of the Russian Empire

Paperback || Alexander Vasiliev || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is a book of photographs that has been compiled by the famous Russian fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev. The book is all about children's clothing and fashion in Russia in the age of the Tsars, from the 1860s to 1917.Presented in the form of an antique photo-album and featuring over 400 photographs from the author's private collection, Children's Fashion of the Russian Empire is unique in both its content and the way it is presented. The story of ch...

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Herstories / druk 1

Paperback || Michael M. Naydan || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

This is a collection of Ukrainian women's stories, histories that serve to tell her unique stories in English translation. Substantial excerpts from novels and translations of complete shorter works of each author will give the reader deep insight into this burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary Ukrainian women's prose. Women's prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating...

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Sankya / druk 1

Paperback || Zakhar Prilepin || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Sasha "Sankya" Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation stuck between eras. They don't remember the Soviet Union, but they also don't believe in the promise of opportunity for all in the corrupt, capitalistic new Russia. They belong to an extremist group that wants to build a better Russia by tearing down the existing one. Sasha, alternately thoughtful and naïve, violent and tender, dispassionate and romantic, hopeful and hopeless, is torn between the dying village of his youth and t...

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Wolf Messing / druk 1

Paperback || Tatiana Lungin || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

This Wolf Messing memoir by Tatiana Lungin presents a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the 20th century. Lungin chronicles Messing's incredible life and career, and provides an inside look at psychic research behind the Iron Curtain.Born a Polish Jew, young Messing gained an international reputation as the world's greatest telepath while touring Europe together with the famous Busch Circus. In Vienna, messing met Albert Einstein who brought him in contact with S...

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A History of Belarus

Paperback || Lubov Bazan || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Rare materials on Belarus are a potential treasure trove for the English language reader. A blank spot on the map for many, Belarus is an undiscovered mystery in the heart of Europe - undiscovered, because little has been published on the country's history and current affairs, and the origin of the ethnic group that calls itself 'Belarusians'. Author Lubov Bazan attempts to uplift the veil of secrecy surrounding Belarus and answer an important question of the ethnogenesis of the Belarusians.U...

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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross

Paperback || Lyudmila Boyadzhieva || Glagoslav Publications Ltd

The documentary novel A Life on the Cross provides a unique insight into the life of Andrey Tarkovsky, the infamous film director and a man whose life was by no means free of unedifying behaviour and errors of judgement. Andrei Tarkovsky died in a Paris hospital in 1986, aged just 54. An internationally acclaimed icon of the film industry, the legacy Tarkovsky left for his fans included Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Nostalgia and a host of other brilliant works. In the Soviet Union, however, Tarko...