Abstract
Death mask of Tsar Peter the Great seen at the State Historical Museum of Russia, Moscow
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The novelist and Index contributing editor presents an original satire in which a mysterious bearded man arrives at the White House
Jemimah Steinfeld speaks to the award-winning writer about a crackdown in China on time travel on television and introduces an exclusive, surreal new short story
The Comrade Count’s novel Peter the Great was liked by Stalin, who saw favourable parallels to his own leadership. Boris Dralyuk introduces Tolstoy’s earlier, less fl attering portrayal of the tsar, translated into English for the fi rst time