“Russian literature only truly noticed Siberia in the nineteenth century, and primarily as a place of exile... Gradually, however, Russian writers began to recognize a different Siberia: a richly forested Siberia where hunters roamed, a Siberia filled with villages tended by Russian settlers..." (From the Editor’s Introduction)
Issue #09 of Chtenia takes us Behind the Urals, with writings by Boris Pasternak • Osip Mandelstam • Pavel Bazhov • Alexander Pushkin • Alexander Odoyevsky • Vladimir Arsenyev • Anton Chekhov • Peter Aleshkovsky and others.
