The complete online text of Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome.

Arthur Ransome was forty-six when Swallows and Amazons was published in 1930. He was at a turning point in a career as a journalist in which he had covered many important stories, most notably the Russian Revolution. He had been publishing books since he...

Financial problems have severely weakened the Russian army. Soldiers fighting during the war in Chechnya were reportedly starving and poorly equipped. Reports of disease, hazing and starvation have also kept Russian parents from encouraging their children to join the army. The Defense Ministry was...

The title of Irina Denezhkina's literary debut, "Give Me (Songs for Lovers)," sounds peculiar indeed. Then you begin reading these startling, funny, poignant, eccentric stories, and the title makes perfect sense. Denezhkina's young Russian urbanites have little and want a great deal, including...