This reference volume lists over three hundred non-documentary movies made in Russia from 1908–1919, which are still preserved (some in fragments) in various collections all over the world (collections include «Gosfilmofond Rossii», Russian State Archive for Visual Materials, the Library of Congress, the Swedish Movie Institute, the British Movie Institute, the French Cinémathique, etc.)
The catalogue presents the movies in chronological and alphabetical order and introduces researchers to a wealth of new materials of various sorts, from the production-related documents to newspaper reviews and memoirs of movie-makers. It recreates a colorful picture of the early years of Russian movie industry and its reception by the contemporaries.

Krusanv’s study focuses on the most active period in the history of the Russian avant-garde. In the years between 1907 and 1932, many Russian avant-garde figures held positions of responsibility in the administration of the arts. This book covers events in the arts world of Petrograd and Moscow, ranging from literary events and reforms of the teaching of the arts to museum-building, the fine arts, theatre and music. Krusanov draws on vast archive material and information from the press to evoke in great detail the work of leaders of the avant-garde movements and many less known artistic groups, poets and artists.

Krusanv’s study focuses on the most active period in the history of the Russian avant-garde. In the years between 1907 and 1932, many Russian avant-garde figures held positions of responsibility in the administration of the arts. This book covers events in the arts world of Petrograd and Moscow, ranging from literary events and reforms of the teaching of the arts to museum-building, the fine arts, theatre and music. Krusanov draws on vast archive material and information from the press to evoke in great detail the work of leaders of the avant-garde movements and many less known artistic groups, poets and artists.

A unique encyclopaedia of its kind, this invaluable book covers the forty-year history of Leningrad’s unofficial literary movement from the first post-Stalinist years to the fall of the USSR. It contains the biographies of 350 Leningrad poets, prose writers, playwrights, critics and philosophers, as well as over a hundred essays on samizdat journals, anthologies and collections. Besides the heritage of well-known authors such as Anna Akhmatova, Iosif Brodsky, Andrey Bitov and Gleb Gorbovsky, this publication brings to light the work of those, whose names were for decades known only to samizdat readers: Leonid Aronson, Roald Mandelstam, Alexander Morev and Victor Krivulin. The encyclopaedia also contains photographs of over a hundred samizdat authors.