Sventa

Maxim Osipov is a cardiologist, publisher, prose writer, and the winner of several literary awards for short prose. His works have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. "Sventa" is the most comprehensive collection of Osipov's stories, essays, and sketches ever published in Russia. His prose combines medicine, politics, theater, music, religious life, life in the provinces and in emigration, charity, and even chess. Taken together, these works paint a vivid picture of the changes that have occurred in Russian society over the past decade and a half. Despite Osipov's inherent lyricism and humor in his prose, his works are full of premonitions of the tragic turns of history that eventually led the author himself to leave the country.