Lost and Found in Russia

Far from Moscow and St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites and almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River and Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new and unfamiliar world. Returning again and again, for over a decade, to the deep heartland of this rapidly-evolving country, Susan Richards has encountered extraordinary people and forged lasting friendships. Through their unforgettable stories and her own experiences she reveals how in Russia the past and the present cannot be separated. Illuminating a forgotten people and sweeping away traditional assumptions, "Lost and Found in Russia" is a compelling and essential portrait - poignant, yet full of hope for a new future.

Susan Richards is the author of Epics of Everyday Life, which won the P.E.N. Time-Life Award for Non-Fiction and the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award in 1990. She edits openDemocracy Russia, part of openDemocracy, the website about global affairs which she co-founded.

Map
List of Main Characters
Preface
1992-3
There be Monsters
Benya's Ark
Visions & Fakes
Opening the Cages
False Pregnancy
The Red Cardinal
A-Little-Bit-Me
The Other Side of Despair
Tied Back to Back
Turning Russia Round
The Devil's Tune
An Abyss of Stars
A Piece of Green Pummice
Siberian Cassandra
Connoisseur of Silences
The Art of Mind Control
1994-6
Legend of the Golden Woman
The Path Not Taken
The Lost Heart of Russia
Russia's Quakers
In the Wilderness
The Time of the Antichrist
Photography is a Sin!
Music of the Forest
1995
The Dark Side
1996
Creeping Fascism
Banging the Table
1997-8
In Search of the Russian Idea
The Prodigal Returns
Building Heaven or Hell
Touching the Cosmos
Riding Two Realities
Ticket to the End of the Earth
Russian Orestes
A Country Doing Cold Turkey
Society of Original Harmony
Eating Children
Singing Cedars?
The Twelve-Step Cure
Music of the Spheres
1998
Looking for Mother Olga
The Goddess & Baba Yaga
Lifting Zina's Curse
1999-2004
Cordelia of the Steppes
Freedom is Slavery
My Dream House
Theirs Not to Reason Why
One Small Mend in the Past
2005-07
Fairy Tale in Dubious Taste
The Two-Plank Bridge
St Seraphim & the Bomb
The Crooked & the Beautiful
Glimpses of Grace
Finding the Golden Woman
Part Six
2008
How about a Riddle?
The Worm Turns
The Price of Dreams
Pilnyak's Island
Festival of Dead Leaves