The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship – about everything which is on everyone’s mind, which is close and clear to every person. All works of the author are created in an integrated manner. Elena persistently follows the path of her search, her success. Simply try not to skim the novel but to think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps, you will find there something new and unknown.
This is a ballad telling us an unusual, mystical story. The prince and the king are both in love with Elvira, who is a forester's daughter. To get rid of his rival, the king sends his son to Morgana's castle, where Morgana should bring prince to destruction. In the meantime, the king forces Elvira to marry him. She denies his 'offer.' The king gets furious and orders to burn her in flames. But all is not lost for Elvira: the power of her love helps her defeat the death and, in turn, save the prince from dying...
Elena Fedorova's books have an amazing ability to bewitch and captivate. They entice the readers from the very first page and do not release them until the final pianissimo chord is heard... And then one wants to start over from the beginning, plunging into the world of happiness and dreams, into those unknown worlds that each of us wants to find. The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship - about everything which is on everyone's mind, which is near and dear to every person. This is a book with three parallel stories. One takes place in the past when an Emperor used to rule. Another one is in the present, where a girl tries to unlock the mystery of Zafandel. The third is the story of Love. Just try not to skim the novel but think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps you will discover something new and unknown.
In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I’s ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition an embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships’ commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists, Siberian merchants, Baltic naval officers, even Japanese passengers. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago on May 7, 1804, and for the next twelve days, the naval officers revolted against Rezanov’s command while complex crosscultural encounters between Russians and islanders occurred. Elena Govor recounts the voyage, reconstructing and exploring in depth the tumultuous events of the Russians’ stay in Nuku Hiva; the course of the mutiny, its resolution and aftermath; and the extent and nature of the contact between Nuku Hivans and Russians. Govor draws directly on the writings of the participants themselves, many of whom left accounts of the voyage. Those by the ships’ captains, Krusenstern and Lisiansky, and the naturalist George Langsdorff are well known, but here for the first time, their writings are juxtaposed with recently discovered textual and visual evidence by various members of the expedition in Russian, German, Japanese—and by the Nuku Hivans themselves. Two sailor-beachcombers, a Frenchman and an Englishman who acted as guides and interpreters, later contributed their own accounts, which feature the words and opinions of islanders. Govor also relies on a myth about the Russian visit recounted by Nuku Hivans to this day. With its unique polyphonic historical approach, Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva presents an innovative crosscultural ethnohistory that uncovers new approaches to—and understandings of—what took place on Nuku Hiva more than two hundred years ago.
Here then is the fruit of Elena Kuz'mina's life-long quest for the Indo-Iranians. Already its predecessor ("Otkuda prishli indoarii?," published in 1994) was considered the most comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Indo-Iranians ever published, but in this new, significantly expanded edition (edited by J.P. Mallory) we find an encyclopaedic account of the Andronovo culture of Eurasia. Taking its evidence from archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, mythology, and physical anthropology pertaining to Indo-Iranian origins and expansions, it comprehensively covers the relationships of this culture with neighboring areas and cultures, and its role in the foundation of the Indo-Iranian peoples.
This English translation of a work previously published in Russian (Geoarkheologiya i radiouglerodnaya khronologiya kamennogo veka Severo Vostochnoi Azii, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010) presents an overview of the Paleolithic archaeology of Northeast Asia, with emphasis on geoarchaeological and radiocarbon-based chronology. Although archaeological investigations above the Arctic Circle began more than two hundred years ago, access to and publication of findings has been difficult. In Geoarchaeology and Radiocarbon Chronology of Stone Age Northeast Asia, veteran researchers Vladimir V. Pitul’ko and Elena Yu. Pavlova have gathered and analyzed the available data to provide comprehensive documentation of human occupation of continental territories far above the Arctic Circle in the late Neopleistocene (also known as the Late Pleistocene era). By using uncalibrated radiocarbon dating, Pitul’ko and Pavlova have been able to establish reliable correlations between the artifacts and phenomena being studied. The increased number of radiocarbon age determinations for these Arctic sites is the most important data to come from the latest studies of Northeast Asia, offering a significant opportunity for re-evaluation of older materials in light of these new findings. The authors include reporting on recent work performed at two of the most important sites in the region: the “mammoth cemetery” site at Berelekh and the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site.
Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene, a doctoral dissertation by Dr. Elena Ceausescu, is a study of the synthesis of cis-l, 4-polyisoprene rubber, an elastomer of synthetic rubber whose structure and properties are similar to that of natural rubber. This elastomer is primarily used in the manufacture of tires, belts, hoses, matting, flooring, dampeners, and other synthetic rubber goods. The book is organized into two parts. Part I, the Ph.D. thesis, focuses on the explanation and exposition of the polymerization reaction; properties of the polymer; and certain theoretical aspects related to the polymer's reaction mechanism and kinetics. Part II presents data derived from an extensive variety of experiments and tests intended to serve as a basis for the industrial production of cis-l, 4-polyisoprene rubber. The text will be an interesting book for materials engineers, industrial engineers, chemists, and science students engaged in the study of polymers.
The papers collected in this book show the results of investigations performed by Russian scientists in the field of low dose irradiation action. It is confirmed that low doses do have effects on the human organism and the environment and that the most serious consequences are observed in the far post-irradiation period. This branch of radiobiology
Provides an historical overview of the experiences of women in Russian society, discussing their participation in various fields and profiling the lives of significant women.
The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship – about everything which is on everyone’s mind, which is close and clear to every person. All works of the author are created in an integrated manner. Elena persistently follows the path of her search, her success. Simply try not to skim the novel but to think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps, you will find there something new and unknown.
Elena Fedorova's books have an amazing ability to bewitch and captivate. They entice the readers from the very first page and do not release them until the final pianissimo chord is heard... And then one wants to start over from the beginning, plunging into the world of happiness and dreams, into those unknown worlds that each of us wants to find. The books by Elena Fedorova always represent an easy, confidential conversation about life, love, and friendship - about everything which is on everyone's mind, which is near and dear to every person. This is a book with three parallel stories. One takes place in the past when an Emperor used to rule. Another one is in the present, where a girl tries to unlock the mystery of Zafandel. The third is the story of Love. Just try not to skim the novel but think about every word, every phrase. Perhaps you will discover something new and unknown.
This is a ballad telling us an unusual, mystical story. The prince and the king are both in love with Elvira, who is a forester's daughter. To get rid of his rival, the king sends his son to Morgana's castle, where Morgana should bring prince to destruction. In the meantime, the king forces Elvira to marry him. She denies his 'offer.' The king gets furious and orders to burn her in flames. But all is not lost for Elvira: the power of her love helps her defeat the death and, in turn, save the prince from dying...
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * “A haunting book of rare courage.” —Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent and author of On All Fronts To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko’s unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it. The result is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a young woman who refuses to be silenced. In March 2022, as a correspondent for Russia’s last free press, Novaya Gazeta, Kostyuchenko crossed the border into Ukraine to cover the war. It was her mission to ensure that Russians witnessed the horrors Putin was committing in their name. She filed her pieces knowing that should she return home, she would likely be prosecuted and sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison. Yet, driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism, she continues to write. I Love Russia stitches together reportage from the past fifteen years with personal essays, assembling a kaleidoscopic narrative that Kostyuchenko understands may be the last work from her homeland that she’ll publish for a long time—perhaps ever. It exposes the inner workings of an entire nation as it descends into fascism and, inevitably, war. She writes because the threat of Putin’s Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine. We fail to understand it at our own peril.
Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov, evokes both the privileges and the unmet needs of growing up in the inner circle of the Communist elite even as she provides an indelible vision of the horror of her family's near extinction during Stalin's purges of the 1930s. 24 pages of photos.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING âe~Incredibly powerful âe¦ by the time you reach the end, youâe(tm)ll have experienced the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life.âe(tm) Alan Alda âe~The possibility of leaving Russia was never as thrilling as the prospect of leaving my mother.âe(tm) When Elena Gorokhova arrives in America, the only link back to her Russian past is a suitcase filled with twenty kilograms of what used to be her life. Navigating a country she had been taught to fear, Elena begins to carve out a new life in an unfamiliar world. Before the birth of Elena's daughter, her mother comes to visit and stays for twenty-four years. Elena, must struggle with the challenge of raising an American daughter whilst living with her controlling mother, a mirror image of her Motherland. Russian Tattoo is the story of what it means to be an outsider, and what happens when the cultures of our past and present collide. Above all, it is an insightful portrait of mothers and daughters.
Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia.
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