Virtual Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group Sunday, March 21, 1:00-3:00pm EDT Join our virtual Russian literature book group! We meet every other month over Zoom for a robust discussion, led by one of our group members. This month’s book: The Railway by Hamid Ismailov. Please contact aconsalvi@museumofrussianicons.org for more information.
Virtual Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group Sunday, November 8, 1:00-3:00pm EST Free. New members always welcome. This month’s book: Buddha’s Little Finger by Victor Pelevin. Please contact aconsalvi@museumofrussianicons.org for more information.
Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group Sunday, November 19, 1:00-3:00pm, Free. Call (978) 598-5000 x115 or email lsubbotina@museumofrussianicons.org for more information about the group. The Funeral Party by Liudmilla Ulitskaya is simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character. It captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and [...]
Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group Sunday, October 15, 1:00-3:00pm Free. Call 978.598.5000 x115 or email lsubbotina@museumofrussianicons.org for more information about the group. This month’s book is The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin. A series of letters between a man at war and a woman on the Russian homefront provides the narrative for this literary [...]
Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group Sunday, May 21, 1:00-3:00PM, Free Join us as we discuss Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (translated by Olena Bormashenko) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, and Roadside Picnic is included on almost every list of the hundred greatest science-fiction novels. [...]
Sunday, January 22, 1:00–3:00PM Free Join our book group as we discuss Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov. This is the story of an unsuccessful writer and inveterate alcoholic who takes a summer job at the Pushkin Hills Preserve in hopes of regaining some balance in his life, only to experience a further unraveling. The New York Review [...]
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