Modern Russian Fiction

In the frozen hell of Bakhmut, some men fight for flags, others for ideals. Volk fights for a paycheck. A cynical, detached mercenary, Volk is a master of his trade, a professional who deals in results, not reasons. His contract is his creed, and the bonus for this one last job is large enough to buy his way out of the war and into a life where the only thing he has to kill is time. But this contract is the dirtiest yet. His new command is the Shtorm-Z unit—the Disposables. A penal battalion of convicts, thieves, and murderers pulled from Russia’s darkest prisons, they are not soldiers;...

David Thornton was a respected doctor, a husband, and a father—but beneath the surface, he was drowning. Addiction, debt, and lies had begun to consume him. A weekend trip to Las Vegas, meant for redemption, becomes a nightmare when he crosses paths with a ruthless Russian enforcer—and ends up tortured, hunted, and left for dead in the Nevada desert. But death never came. Instead, David is rescued by a mysterious man named Jacob and taken to a hidden sanctuary known only as the Sanctum—a place untouched by time, built for those seeking one last chance to change. As David confronts the...

RUSSIAN EUROPEAN WAR 2027 A near-future technothriller where the first strike arrives without warning—though everyone saw it coming. June 22, 04:00. The Suwałki Gap—long feared, long studied—finally triggers the war no one wanted but everyone expected. The Baltics come under attack by hybrid forces and freshly declared “people’s republics.” Gotland is blockaded and hit without a declaration of war. New “republics” appear overnight across Europe. Drone swarms cut into harbors; fake “embassies” issue real ultimatums; a civilian Il-76 declares an emergency landing. NATO ...

They were promised a three-day war. A victory parade in Kyiv. Flowers thrown at the feet of liberators. But for the men of the 64-kilometer-long convoy, the road to glory has become a frozen river of mud and steel. For Captain Dmitri Volkov, a logistics officer, the war is not a battle of heroes, but a grim equation of dwindling fuel, failing equipment, and timetables that have become a grotesque joke. His logbook, once a sanctuary of order, is now the meticulous record of a slow, grinding descent into hell. As days bleed into weeks, the Zampolit’s patriotic speeches fade into the howl of...

This collection, first published in 1917, features the works of 10 Russian poets who were active in the early 20th century. In the preface, the anthologist and translator, Paul Selver, writes: "It is hoped that this collection will convey a fairly adequate idea of the chief features in modern Russian poetry, a branch of Russian literature which has so far received very little serious attention in this country."

An American TV actress adopts a little Russian girl in St. Petersburg in 1994. The actress, Molly McKay, arrives to find a Russia struggling to become a free market democracy. She also discovers that the TV show she starred in back in the ‘80s in the U.S. is now a big hit in Russia, complicating an already harrowing adoption journey. Then there are the two handsome princes, one Russian, one American, and all the other fairytale characters who help or hinder My Russian Clementine.

When a meteor explodes over a snow-covered Russian industrial metropolis spreading a deadly virus that turns thousands of the city dwellers into the walking dead, Ramses Campbell—an African American martial arts instructor, and a rising HBO Sports star, who has come to Russia to teach seminars—must fight to survive. In this deathtrap of a city, Ramses joins a group of survivors of various nationalities: a Russian interpreter, an English hotel manager, a Serbian executive chef, a Swedish sex tourist, a German Catholic priest, a Turkish engineer, and a blind Chinese teenage girl. They ...

Аукционы бывают разными. На них выставляют не только произведения искусств. Но и девушек. Красивых и молодых. Саша по доброй воле "сделала" себя лотом. Потому что иного выхода не видела…Что будет по завершению аукциона - не имеет значения. Врачи поставили ей неутешительный диагноз, по факту вынося приговор. Время на исходе.