This book tells of the Far North, of the many small nationalities who have lived from time immemorial on the wide open spaces of the Arctic coast between the Barents Sea in the west and Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands in the east, between Murmansk and Vladivostok. These nationalities are sometimes referred to as "minor", because their populations are not large - some number no more than a thousand people. But each nationality has its own language, its own culture and its own arctic traditions handed down from generation to generation. 'Through the Centuries' has brought together some of the best works about the Russian Far North by such authors as the Chukchi, Yuri Rytkheu, the Mansi Yuvan Shestalov, the Nenets, Vasily Ledkov and the Yukaghir, Semyon Kurilov.

Content Shore of Two Oceans (Introduction) Author: Yuri Leonov Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger page 8 Dersu Uzala - Vladimir Arsenyev, novella Translation: Vic Shneyerson p. 17 Metelitsa - Alexander Fadeyev, story Translation: Graham Whittaker page 38 The Death of Captain Nezelasov - Vsevolod Ivanov, short story Translation: Keith Hammond p. 53 The Commandant of Bird Island - Sergei Dikovsky, story Translation: N. Kaye p. 66 At the Source - Vladimir Sangi, short story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 87 The Wedding - Victor Levashov Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger page 97 The Taiga - Pyotr Proskurin, story p. 120 Watercolors - Anatoly Kim, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 180 The Kuriban - Valentin Fyodorov, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 194 Fear - Sergei Kucherenko, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 205 The Shore of Princess Lucinda - Oleg Kuvayev, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 213 The Last Hunt - Grigory Khodzher, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 226 In the Mine - Alexander Pletnyov Translation: Graham Whittaker p. 252 Out There, with the Sun and Life - Vyacheslav Sukachev, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 292 The Death of the Leader - Anatoly Tkachenko, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 302 Fact and Fantasy - Nikolai Ryzhikh, story Translation: Linda Noble p. 317 The Valley of Geysers - Anatoly Sevastyanov, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 325 The Wave Is Coming - Anatoly Sevastyanov, story Translation: Cynthia Rosenberger p. 332 Chudo-Yudo, the Wonder Monster - Yuri Leonov, story p. 338

The Caucasus, the great mountain range bounding Georgia, a republic in the South of the USSR, to the North and stretching from the Black Sea to the Caspian, was known in early times as the Mountain of Tongues. Some 50 distinct languages and dialects are spoken in the region to this day, in addition to literary Georgian and Armenian. The variety and contrast that are typical of the area are reflected in this anthology of stories by modern Georgian writers. It includes works by Nodar Dumbadze, Archil Sulakauri, Otia Ioseliani, Guram Dochanashvili, Goderdzi Chokheli, as well as by the well-known Abkhazian author, Fazil Iskander and by the Tbilisi-born poet and prose writer Bulat Okudzhava. The two latter authors now live in Moscow. These are names that hardly need an introduction for they are virtually as well known abroad as they are in the Soviet Union.

An illustrated collection of stories, essays, and legends from Russia’s northwestern area.