Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde непреодолимости раз-рыва и невозможности любых

непреодолимости раз-рыва и невозможности любых форм возвращения поменяла имя

the novel shows how people—and cities—are capable of radical transformation and how this

exhilarating panorama of the city itself

" – Melissa Thompson

— Елена Душечкина бережно реконструирует путь

Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde непреодолимости раз-рыва и невозможности любыхShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025. On Russias neglected European edge, Amos follows the lives of ordinary people in Pskov from orphanage carers and hospital patients to a museum curator fighting to preserve local heritage. He paints a lyrical, human portrait of a frontier marked by decay, historys erasure and quiet defiance. Returning to an overlooked region on the edge of Russia, Howard Amos sets out on a quest to understand the