Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde — Елена Душечкина бережно реконструирует

— Елена Душечкина бережно реконструирует путь

" – Melissa Thompson

like those of their Western counterparts

exhilarating panorama of the city itself

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

Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos avant-garde — Елена Душечкина бережно реконструируетShortlisted 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