INTRODUCTION
Inescapable Anguish
PART I
Gangsters, Soldiers & Patriots
TRAINING DAY
by Andrei Kivinov
Kupchino
Translated by Polly Gannon
THE SIXTH OF JUNE
by Sergei Nosov
Moskovsky Prospect
Translated by Polly Gannon
WAKE UP, YOU’RE A DEAD MAN NOW
by Vadim Levental
New Holland
Translated by Ronald Meyer
THE WITCHING HOUR
by Alexander Kudriavtsev
Dostoevsky Museum
Translated by Marian Schwartz
PART II
A WATERY GRAVE
PEAU DE CHAGRIN
By Natalia Kurchatova & Ksenia Venglinskaya
Rybatskoye
Translated by Marian Schwartz
DRUNK HARBOR
by Lena Eltang
Drunk Harbor
Translated by Marian Schwartz
BARELY A DROP
by Andrei Rubanov
Liteyny Avenue
Translated by Marian Schwartz
SWIFT CURRENT
by Anna Solovey
Kolomna
Translated by Marian Schwartz
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA FOREVER
by Julia Belomlinsky
Arts Square
Translated by Ronald Meyer
PART III
CHASING GHOSTS
THE NUTCRACKER
by Anton Chizh
Haymarket Square
Translated by Walt Tanner
PARANOIA
by Mikhail Lialin
Lake Dolgoe
Translated by Margarita Shalina
THE HAIRY SUTRA
by Pavel Krusanov
Moika Embankment, 48
Translated by Amy Pieterse
A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
by Eugene Kogan
Kunstkamera
Translated by Margarita Shalina
HOTEL ANGLETERRE
by Vladimir Berezin
Hotel Angleterre
Translated by Amy Pieterse