Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov ninth of november When we view it through

When we view it through the prism of a Stalinist orthodoxy

Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize

with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building

as it tears itself apart

investigating the disappearance of thousands of missing Polish officers

Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov ninth of november When we view it throughLev 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