Do you happen to know who Maria Callas’ teachers were? Or do you know the names of those who had corrected errors in Picasso’s first paintings? Have you ever thought who inspired Gogol to write his first text? Of course, you can google it but you never do. There are some writers “widely known in the narrow circles” as well as poets, artists, and incomparable talents who are the real teachers behind the actual top-ten stars and their invincible and admirable maestros. We cannot change the past but we can influence the future. Therefore we have decided to present a new book series called “Russian Lessons." This new series will bind the works of unique Russian authors, our contemporaries: Oleg Zobern, Dmitry Danilov, Anatoly Gavrilov, Alexander Sharypov, Mikhail Novikov.
The interest in masterpieces of the last twenty years that go beyond the usual format has been on the rise, and the narrow (literary) circle of its admirers will widen undoubtedly. Perhaps we can talk about a new wave of “restored literature”, like in the Perestroika time, even if technically this literature is "emerging" rather than "returning." What these "newly restored” works have in common is that they are loved more by Western slavists than by Russian readers. And the aim of the "Russian Lessons" series is to draw the boundaries of this new “restored prose”.
All books in this series
