Любовь и смерть в русской литературе

A collection of lectures on Russian literature originally read by the critic Dmitriĭ Bykov on the television program "100 lectures with Dmitriĭ Bykov," accompanied by comics-style illustrations. Explores works by early-20th-century authors Valeriĭ Bri︠u︡sov, Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Maksim Gorkiĭ, Aleksandr Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Andreĭ Belyĭ, Vladimir Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ, Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak, Evgeniĭ Zami︠a︡tin, Nikolaĭ Gumilëv, Isaak Babel, and Sergeĭ Esenin. First in a planned set of four volumes.