Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡

"Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and beyond, Jacob's Ladder guides the reader through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine, and draws suggestive parallels between historical events of the early twentieth century and those of more recent memory. Spanning the seeming promise...

"One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's. The friendship between the two men evolved through periods...

"'O tele dushi'--novai︠a︡ kniga prozy Li︠u︡dmily Ulit︠s︡koĭ. "Pro telo my znaem gorazdo bolʹshe, chem pro dushu. Nikto ne mozhet narisovatʹ atlas dushi. Tolʹko pogranichnoe prostranstvo inogda udaetsi︠a︡ ulovitʹ. Tam, u ėtoĭ granit︠s︡y, po mere priblizhenii︠a︡ k neĭ, nachinai︠u︡tsi︠a︡ takie vibrat︠s︡ii, raskryvai︠u︡tsi︠a︡ takie tonkie detali, o kotorykh pochti nevozmozhno i govoritʹ na nashem...

Miussy Li︠u︡dmily Ulit︠s︡koĭ i Olʹgi Trifonovoĭ, Lengory Dmitrii︠a︡ Bykova, VDNKh Dmitrii︠a︡ Glukhovskogo, "tucherez" v Gnezdnikovskom pereulke Mariny Moskvinoĭ, derevni︠a︡ Matveevskoe (ona zhe Blizhni︠a︡i︠a︡ dacha) Aleksandra Arkhangelʹskogo, Taganka Aleksandra Minkina, Rozhdestvenka Andrei︠a︡ Makarevicha, Ordynka Sergei︠a︡ Shargunova ... U kazhdogo svoi︠a︡ istorii︠a︡ i svoi︠a︡ Moskva, no na...