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Russian cuisine in self-isolation

Duration: 0:38:56

Gogol propagandizes al dente pasta and makes Sobakevich eat a side of lamb . Tolstoy sorts things out with the world with the help of vegetarianism . Sorokin serves a salad from women's gloves to the table .


Manuscripts are burning

Duration: 0:42:01

The history of world literature could be richer if it were not for the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the eruption of Vesuvius, tsarist censorship, Gogol's insanity, and searches by the NKVD . In this issue, the editors of Shelf discuss literature lost forever and miraculously returned .