Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde like those of their Western

like those of their Western counterparts

essays and memoir

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He addresses both the intentions of administrators and the experience of inmates

exhilarating panorama of the city itself

Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde like those of their WesternShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025. On Russias neglected European edge, Amos follows the lives of ordinary people in Pskov from orphanage carers and hospital patients to a museum curator fighting to preserve local heritage. He paints a lyrical, human portrait of a frontier marked by decay, historys erasure and quiet defiance. Returning to an overlooked region on the edge of Russia, Howard Amos sets out on a quest to understand the