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Presentation of "The Walking Disaster Club" by Kathryn Stockett and a meeting with the team from One Book Publishing

"The Walking Disaster Club" by Katherine Stockett is the top literary release of this spring, and according to the New York Times, of all of 2026. The long-awaited novel by the author of "The Help" was released in Russian by Yulia Navalnaya's One Book Publishing, concurrent with its world premiere in America.

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May 2, 13:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Hall 3 book room
Alexey Voinov. Presentation of the book "Winter Without Snow" and the translation of Julien Green's fantasy novella "The Keys of Death"

Alexey Voinov. Presentation of the book "Winter Without Snow" – about the beginning of the war in Ukraine and leaving Russia: a travelogue of time

May 2, 13:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Hall 3 book room
Alexey Voinov. Presentation of the book "Winter Without Snow" and the translation of Julien Green's fantasy novella "The Keys of Death"
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May 2, 13:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
Presentation of the book "Fenichev. Lyrics" and a discussion on the topic: "Hip-hop beyond the edge: opera theater, classical museum, what's next?"

In the introduction to “The Fenichev Phenomenon,” Leonid Desyatnikov writes: “It seems to me that Mikhail Fenichev’s poetry is one of the most tart and unpredictable

May 2, 13:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
Presentation of the book "Fenichev. Lyrics" and a discussion on the topic: "Hip-hop beyond the edge: opera theater, classical museum, what's next?"
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May 3, 12:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Assembly Hall, 3rd floor
"Bread. A Taste of the World." How to Draw the Whole World?
Meeting with artist Anya Desnitskaya

Flour, water, salt, and yeast—just four ingredients. And the bread comes out differently everywhere: Italian focaccia, Indian pav, Japanese shokupan,

May 3, 12:00 PM – 14:00 PM
Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Assembly Hall, 3rd floor
"Bread. A Taste of the World." How to Draw the Whole World?
Meeting with artist Anya Desnitskaya
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May 2, 12:00 PM – 13:00 PM
Hall 2
Presentation of the Hyperboreus cooperative publishing project / words_outside_themselves: Free literature in Russian
Poetry, prose, essays, memoirs

Poet and translator Alyosha Prokopyev will present his new poetry collection, "Fragments of the Future," the first book from the publishing cooperative. Sergey will join online.

May 2, 12:00 PM – 13:00 PM
Hall 2
Presentation of the Hyperboreus cooperative publishing project / words_outside_themselves: Free literature in Russian
Poetry, prose, essays, memoirs
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Lyubimovka

Lyubimovka is a non-profit international project of Russian-speaking playwrights. Lyubimovka continues the tradition of the festival of young playwrights, which in the first years of its existence was held in

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Alexey Voinov

Alexey Voinov is a writer and contributor to Mamleev's magical realism anthology. A translator, "the Russian voice of Duras and Guibert," he has published nearly fifty translations of Bessette.

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Anna Desnitskaya

Anna Desnitskaya is an artist, illustrator, and collage artist. A graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, Desnitskaya has illustrated numerous children's books, including "Two

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May 1, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 1 for children
A new perspective on interactions with children. Children as equals in value.
A meeting with Lena Korneeva, author of "Let Your Wings Grow: A Guide to Parenting Without Devaluation" (Sandermoen Publishing, Switzerland)

Lena Korneeva (Germany), Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist who helps people build relationships with care. Born in Ukraine, she has lived and worked in

May 1, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 1 for children
A new perspective on interactions with children. Children as equals in value.
A meeting with Lena Korneeva, author of "Let Your Wings Grow: A Guide to Parenting Without Devaluation" (Sandermoen Publishing, Switzerland)
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May 3, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
Presentation of the complete collection of poems by Georg Trakl (Virgola Press, New York) and a meeting with translator and commentator Alyosha Prokopiev

This is the most complete edition of Georg Trakl in Russian, including for the first time the surviving fragments of his youthful dramas, drafts and editions; it is offered,

May 3, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
Presentation of the complete collection of poems by Georg Trakl (Virgola Press, New York) and a meeting with translator and commentator Alyosha Prokopiev
more details»

May 3, 15:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Bibliothek am Wasserturm, assembly hall, 3rd floor
"Coercion to Faith in the History of Orthodoxy"
Meeting with Andrey Kuraev and presentation of the two-volume book "Mission and Violence" (BAbook)

This book is about the violence that church authorities can cover up with the rhetoric of "paternal care." Andrei Kuraev shows that in the history of Orthodoxy

May 3, 15:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Bibliothek am Wasserturm, assembly hall, 3rd floor
"Coercion to Faith in the History of Orthodoxy"
Meeting with Andrey Kuraev and presentation of the two-volume book "Mission and Violence" (BAbook)
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May 3, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 3 book room
Presentation of the novel "Landscapes of Lost Time" (Freedom Letters, 2025) and an autograph session with the author, Petr Turekhin

In his past life, the hero was a journalist and wrote about bicycles for a Moscow newspaper. In his new life, he's an FSB agent, monitoring

May 3, 16:00 PM – 17:00 PM
Hall 3 book room
Presentation of the novel "Landscapes of Lost Time" (Freedom Letters, 2025) and an autograph session with the author, Petr Turekhin
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May 2, 15:00 PM – 16:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
How can parents support LGBTQ+ children and themselves?
A candid conversation with mothers of queer people and a psychologist.
Moderator Tatyana Lazareva

Participants of the meeting: two mothers from the “Open Parents” group – Natasha Kilber, mother of a gay man; Natasha F., mother of a trans person; Maria Sabunaeva, psychologist,

May 2, 15:00 PM – 16:00 PM
Hall 6 CLUB
How can parents support LGBTQ+ children and themselves?
A candid conversation with mothers of queer people and a psychologist.
Moderator Tatyana Lazareva
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May 1, 12:00 PM – 13:00 PM
Hall 5
Presentation of the book "Bekhterev in the Kremlin. Psychologists and the Tyrant" and a discussion on "Censorship in Academic Circles: The USSR and the Russian Federation—What Has Changed?"

The author is Luciano Mecacci, an Italian historian and psychologist, professor at the University of Florence, and a leading expert on the history of Soviet psychology. In the 1970s

May 1, 12:00 PM – 13:00 PM
Hall 5
Presentation of the book "Bekhterev in the Kremlin. Psychologists and the Tyrant" and a discussion on "Censorship in Academic Circles: The USSR and the Russian Federation—What Has Changed?"
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Grigory Petukhov

Grigory Petukhov was born in 1974 in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the Literary Institute in Moscow and worked as a television journalist. He has published in the magazines Oktyabr and Znamya.

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Petr Turekhin

Petr Turekhin, St. Petersburg. Lives between Berlin and São Paulo. Graduated from the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a degree in Literature. Author of the novels "Emergence," "Male"

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Luciano Mecacci

Luciano Mecacci, an Italian historian and psychologist, professor at the University of Florence, is a leading specialist in the history of Soviet psychology. In the 1970s, he worked in

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