Living Pictures by Polina Barskova print passion and coarse beauty of

passion and coarse beauty of Babel’s singular voice

Home Made Russia features over 220 artefacts of Soviet culture

Telluria is set in the future

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Living Pictures by Polina Barskova print passion and coarse beauty ofWinner of the Andrei Bely Prize 'A precise, tremendous and beautiful book' Maria Stepanova, author of In Memory of Memory Growing up in Leningrad, Polina Barskova saw no trace of the estimated million people who died in the city during the Nazi blockade of 1941 44. As one of Russias most admired and controversial contemporary writers, she has repeatedly returned to the archive of texts still being recovered from the siege, finding creative ways to