The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa's Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya's My Life memoirs.

My Life was selected among the top 100 non-fiction works of 2010 by The Globe and Mail.
It has also won an honourable mention in the Biography and Autobiography category of the 2010 American Publishers Awards for the Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) awards.
And, finally, it made it into the Association of American...

Published by York University in Toronto. Do not judge this book by its cover but by its content "A Poet's Gallery" is a collection of poems (with parallel English translations) written by Russian philosopher and poet Anatoly Nazirov. He is a Post-Doctoral Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Department of Philosophy and Culturology at the St-Petersburg State University of Economics and Service, Russia.... His poetry, rich in emotion and original images, uses alliteration and assonance to express a unique and complex style of intricate yet understandable ideas. Dear Reader, you are...

"Zarathustra's Larkmotif" is an epic poem written by the Russian and English-Canadian poet Ivan Zhavoronkov. It is based on a lyrical philosophical poem by the Russian poet and philosophy professor Anatoly Nazirov entitled "Zarathustra" (inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra"), which Zhavoronkov recently translated from the Russian into English and published both as a stand-alone volume and - together with other poems by Dr. Anatoly Nazirov - under the general title "A Poet's Gallery." The poem is rich in emotion and original images, employing rhythm and rhyme,...

Both Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844-1919) were prolific letterwriters.
Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime -- 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna over her lifetime also numbered in the thousands. When Tolstaya published Lev Nikolaevich's letters to her, she declined to include any of her 644 letters to her husband. The absence of half their correspondence obscured the underlying significance of many of his comments to her and occasionally led the reader to wrong...