Set in the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscopic tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Poetic, tragi
The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Uni
