SUMMARY

This issue publishes “So Difficult to Part with Looking-Glasses” — a novel by Irina Polyanskaya, “Below the Tall Cross”, a story by Boris Yekimov, and two stories by Tatyana Nabatnikova. The poetry section of this issue is made up of the new poems by Vladimir Salimon, Lidiya Grigoryeva, Kiril Kovaldzhy and Vladimir Pshenichny.

The sectional offerings are as follows:

Philosophy, History, Politics: “On the Borderline of Centuries. Pavel I and Aleksander I” — the ending of an article by Andrey Zubov from his study “Speculation on the Reasons of Revolution in Russia”.

Times and Morals: “Social Structure or Social Chaos?” — an essay by Revecka Frumkina, as well as an essay by Nina Gorlanova “The Rascals of The Vodokanal and my Soul”.

Comments: “Entomology of the Fandorins”: Alla Latynina on “The Book for Children” and “The Spy Novel” by the popular detective writer Boris Akunin.