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"Nobody will erect a monument to a Russian county town, and in vain." Mikhail Baru is being disingenuous, because his books are a real monument in prose to small Russian towns. The witty, subtle and detailed essays that make up the writer's new book are dedicated to three cities in the Pskov region - Opochka, Ostrov and Porkhov. Much in their history was determined by their border location: these county centers were particularly acutely affected by the clash of interests between Russia and other European powers, trade and diplomatic routes passed through them, and some episodes in Pushkin's biography are connected with them. But, as always, Baru draws the reader's attention not so much to large historical plots, but to how these global processes are refracted in the private lives of people who happened to live in these places at a certain period in history. Mikhail Baru is a poet, prose writer, translator, chemical engineer, and author of the books Unprintable Gingerbread, The English Queen's Tablecloth, and Ovdokim Burunov's Petitions, published by New Literary Review.
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