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Notes: Translated from the Russian. Description: 396 p.: ill.; 24 cm. Contents: Pushkin's photograph / Andrei Bitov -- Auto accident in Paris / Elchin -- No smiles / I. Grekova -- Sleeper / Valentin Kataev -- Cat-strangler silver / Viktor Konetsky -- Antileader / Vladimir Makanin -- Question mark and an exclamation point / Revaz Mishveladze -- Art of needles and sins / Bulat Okudzhava -- Through the fields / Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- What should I tell the crow? / Valentin Rasputin -- Devil's wheel in Kobuleti / Mikhail Roshchin -- Stepanida Ivanovna's funeral / Vladimir Soloukhin -- Fire and dust / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Love in Mustamägi / Arvo Valton -- Details of Nikita Vorontsov's life / S. Yaroslavtsev -- Prose / Sergei Zalygin. Responsibility: compiled by Sergei Zalygin.