The Russian Jerusalem

Beginning in present day St. Petersburg, this novel explores the landscape of 20th century Russian literature through imagined encounters with the great writers of Russia'sliterary past.Withpoet Marina Tsvetaeva as the guide, meetthe ghosts of writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and Joseph Brodsky, whose worlds areinterspersed with original poems, new translations of Russian poems, and striking images of Stalinist propaganda. This book reconstructs the tragic livesof many Russian writers, oftenJewish, during the long period of Soviet terror and re-establishes them at the heart of the European literary tradition.

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