Nikolai ishchenko biography books

We culled through 15 years of Russian Life to select readers’ and editors’ favorite stories and biographies for inclusion in a special two volume collection.

Totalling over pages, these two volumes encompass some of the best writing we have published over the last two decades, and include the most timeless stories and biographies – those that can be read again and again.



This is Volume II: Biographies. It includes 78 timeless profiles of Russians who have shaped the country’s history and culture, from artists and poets, to entrepreneurs, rulers, spies and favorites, including: Rudolph Abel, Ivan Aivazovsky, Anna Akhmatova.

Isaac Babel, Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, Alexander Blok, Karl Bryullov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Catherine II, Anton Chekhov, Sasha Chyorny, Morris and Lona Cohen, Yekaterina Dashkova, False Dmitry I, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Yekaterina Dzhugashvili, Sergei Eisenstein, Tsarina Elizabeth I, Nikolai Ge, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim G