Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov xmas24classiclit Arsenii Tarkovsky is still little-known

Arsenii Tarkovsky is still little-known outside Russia beyond certain lines in Andrei's films

By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died

There are those who look back on the Cold War with nostalgia and affection

with buildings conjured up or demolished to conform with the current ruler's social

Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov xmas24classiclit Arsenii Tarkovsky is still little-knownLev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic